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...Age-old riddle: Why must every Dartmouth student keep cow manure in his back pocket...
...want their dams approved before Election Day, and some of them have sent word to the White House that they might abandon the celebrated gas compromise if the President persists in his opposition. But Carter says he will not back down whatever the political cost. "If we continue the age-old policy of pork-barrel allocations in the public works bill," he said at his press conference, the Administration would be setting a "horrible example" for the rest of the nation in the effort to control inflation. If Congress overrides his veto-a distinct possibility -Carter can still claim that...
...real-life rewriting of the age-old verse, there was no joy in Beantown Monday as mighty Yastrzemski had popped...
James MacGregor Burns '47 tackles this age-old debate with remarkable vigor. Burns, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has long been fascinated by leaders, and much of his life's work has prepared him for writing Leadership. His biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Woodrow Wilson, and of two Kennedy brothers have won him wide acclaim. But Burns has been more than a dispassionate observer; in 1958 he ran for Congress, and he has haunted Democratic national conventions for the past two decades...
...American League East-leading Boston Red Sox will be in town on Monday and Tuesday to play their age-old nemesis, The World Champion New York Yankees, who at this writing are ten games off the pace. But don't bother trying to get tickets for these games. They were sold out months ago. If you have to go, you might try to get bleacher seats, but you'd have to go early--like the night before--and prepare to camp out. Your best bet, then, is to watch both games of this classic baseball rivalry on television...Monday night...