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...wild animal's back." Said Gina: "I didn't kill anything. They were already dead." ··· The crowds at Courchevel, in the French Alps, were tickled rosé by the tireless enthusiasm of Skier Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Apparently undistracted by the resort's après-ski attractions, Canada's Prime Minister swooped 20 miles down a glacier run through virgin snow, braved subfreezing temperatures, high winds and unavoidable falls in heavy crust. Instructors gave his style a B to B+, "très joli," his spirit straight A's. "I thought...
...dossier" idea was considered impractical; instead, the faculty has made provision this fall for students to receive detailed Academic Performance Reports (APR's) from professors in courses in which they are especially interested or which form part of their preparation for graduate school. These reports are similar to graduate school recommendation forms; students hope that the APR's will be more meaningful to them than hastily assigned grades...
...Apr. 17 -Khrushchev's birthday...
...Apr. 24 -The engines of a giant 747 jet flying over Manhattan fail when they are unable to carry on combustion due to lack of oxygen. All 360 passengers and crewmen are killed along with the 143 residents of the apartments it hits in Brooklyn...
...Apr. 25 -The Commonwealth of Massachusetts takes Harvard Stadium by eminent domain and refuses to lease it to Harvard on the weekends when the Boston Patriots play home games. Harvard, having given tacit support to the principle of eminent domain in the famous Cambridge NASA Center fiasco, is in no position to object. The Harvard Varsity Club, the second largest independent corporation in Massachusetts, lets it be known that unless Harvard provides the football team with a stadium by the fall of 1970, they will move elsewhere...