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Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, said yesterday the Harvard Corporation will cast a final vote on the exact amount of the possible tuition increase at their meeting in early February, based on cost proposals to to submitted by the faculty deans by January...
...Cambridge, as in many other parts of the country, exact count of the number of Hispanics is close to impossible. In Boston, for example, the 1970 U.S. census counted 17,900 Spanish-speaking residents, but this estimate may fall far short of the actual number because of the high mobility within the Spanish community, and a lack of bilingual census takers...
...Bains, near Lourdes, and foremost practitioner of la cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness: "The most important tool of a chef is his tongue. Taste, taste, taste! And don't forget color. I combine my vegetables the way a painter arranges his colors-until he obtains the exact effect that he wants...
While few clues as to the papers' exact contents were immediately discernable, it was clear that the bulk of the documents did pertain to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
...FINE Dan Jenkins novel this movie is loosely based on, the prefix semi- attached to an adjective was a sort of redneck oi vey-- thus semi-tough meant very tough indeed. Novels rarely come to the screen with the exact story line of the printed book--Jenkins described his trials with the screenplay in a recent Sports Illustrated article--but director Michael Ritchie has loaded up the old story of two country boys (and one country girl) who come to the city and make good with New York cocktail party jokes, including a sometimes flat parody of Erhardt...