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Councilor Walter Sullivan's call for vacancy decontrol--tabled for a week--is the first legislative challenge to rent control in more than a year. His proposal would end the limits on the rent a landlord can charge for an apartment as soon as current tenants leave their homes, effectively ending rent control gradually as the city's apartments change hands...
...DESIRE FOR NOSTALGIA is unquenchable: President-elect Ronald Reagan this week announced the first eight nominees for his cabinet, and they resemble quite closely their predecessors in the first 190 years of the Republic--white, male and Harvard-educated...
...first batch of nominees deserve special recognition for past achievement--Caspar W. Weinberger '38 seems sure to bring with him from Bechtel Corporation a happy view of the close harmony in which government and industry must work. And then there's William J. Casey, who earned the top job at the Central Intelligence Agency with his deft handling of the Republican's presidential campaign. Or William F. Smith, Reagan's personal attorney, who will run the Justice Department--Reagan, it seems, has forgotten the problems one of his Republican predecessors experienced when he put his closest political cronies in charge...
Harvard coach Johnny Lee gave much of the credit for the team victories to his first four wrestlers but said yesterday the matmen's showing "wasn't a performance that left you feeling great...
...wrestlers will resume their season on January 10 with another quadrangular meet, but the Crimson's first Ivy League contest--January 30 against Cornell--will be what Lee calls "a severe test...