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...Repeal a complex of laws, regulations and practices that prop up prices for the benefit of special interests. Economists at President Ford's September summit meetings spotlighted 32 such rigidities. Among them: the Davis-Bacon Act, which compels contractors to pay inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products...
...large number of students happily slip Group II Groove during their first semester here, enjoying long weekends on the Cape and wild nights, while effortlessly bringing home those B plusses that will someday mean bacon...
...BENNY BACON MAKES a repulsively snivveling, lecherous Tartuffe whom you love to hate. Licking his twitching lips and rubbing his hands Uriah Heepishly, he genuflects his way towards inevitable downfall. Bacon dilutes the inherent despicableness of this character with a strong does of the ridiculous, and his Tartuffe becomes a true figure of satire. Orgon, although the personification of another variety of folly, elicits very different reactions. Played by John Cross, he is a pathetic, even pitiable character, grossly misguided in his worship of a false idol...
Number one player Art Scherer, who was elected captain earlier in the afternoon, won his match, as did Ned Bacon at three and Bill Nolan...
...freshman squad also defeated Yale yesterday, but by a much closer 5-4 margin. Ned Bacon, Mark Panarese, Art Scherer and Karl Bostic all won their singles matches, then Scherer and Bostic teamed up to win their doubles match and lead the Yardlings past the Bulldogs...