Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...looked back. Behind the free throws and drives of speedy guard Mark Branch (he led all scorers with 23), MIT narrowed the Crimson's lead to five points three times in the first half, but each time, a Mannix jumper or a Fleming drive put the Crimson back in control...
Although the West Bank unrest did not figure directly in the Knesset debate, it too reflected on Begin, if only because he has doubled as Defense Minister since Weizman resigned last May. Israeli authorities have been increasingly tough in exercising control over the area's 700,000 Arabs. Since July, all three of the univer sities have been subject to military super vision. The tensions on the West Bank reached a break point after Israeli author ities shut down Bir Zeit University to prevent it from holding "Palestinian Week" activities. In El Bireh, a small town near by, about...
...stories of life in untamed suburbia. One of Good Morning 's greatest assets in the second hour is Mary Ellen Pinkham, who has probably contributed even more to domestic felicity than Sara Lee. It was Pinkham who disclosed to the country that Saran Wrap is easier to control if it is put into the freezer (it does not cling to itself when cold) and that cottage cheese lasts longer if the container is kept upside down in the refrigerator (because the container then becomes airtight). Nobel Prizes have been awarded for less than that...
...Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Heinrich Boll and 133 other prominent Europeans publicly petitioned Rome to ease up in its objections to married priests, birth control, divorce and mixed marriage (47% of German Catholics now marry outside their faith). Here and there on the tour picketers protested about abortion and birth control, or held such placards as Frauen zum Altar (women to the altar). At the Pope's last stop, Barbara Engl, speaking for Munich's Catholic youth league, attacked the church for constant "prohibitions" on "friendship, sexuality and partnership...
Once again, moreover, the man on the spot is Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, whose 13-month-old effort to wrestle down inflation by gaining firm control of the money supply has helped roil up interest rates and keep the economy off balance. In recent months, Volcker has come under attack from the left and the right. While liberals accuse him of being too zealous in his struggle to hold the growth of money to below 6½% during 1980, conservatives have rapped Volcker for consistently failing to hit his target...