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...Sweden, Japan, West Germany and Britain. Large-scale cancellations have been forestalled so far by stiff penalty clauses. But Shozo Doi, vice president of Japan's Sumitomo Shipbuilding Co., gloomily predicts that "about 50% of the tankers on order will become subject to cancellation talks or negotiations to convert to other types...
...Recent Convert. Offensive Stars Phil Chenier and Elvin Hayes do not evoke the raves accorded more publicized stars like Walt Frazier and Rick Barry. They should. Chenier is averaging 21.9 points per game and is fifth in the league in steals. He leads all N.B.A. guards in blocking shots. Hayes, a 6 ft. 9 in. forward with a deft jump shot from the left side of the court, is finally living down the reputation of being more interested in his own rather than the team's performance. He still leads the Bullets in scoring, with an average...
...this mountain of cultural prejudice, Janet Barkas has planted The Vegetable Passion, a monomaniacal history of herbivores from Neanderthal man to the Hare Krishna people. Between her gargoyle book ends, this vegetarian convert presents a series of case histories. Each serves to dispel the notion that vegetable dieters are as alike as peas in a pod. Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi...
Collier said the decision to convert Canaday into an upperclass dorm is "not more than a one-year decision...
...decision to convert Canaday Hall into an upperclass dorm next year will result in increased overcrowding of freshmen dorms. Dean Whitlock said yesterday...