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...seemed high for tiny Central Oregon Community College (fulltime enrollment: 950), but it is not often that the town of Bend, Ore., attracts so illustrious a speaker as Ralph Nader. The consumer advocate was duly paid for his appearance last fall, but now C.O.C.C. is crying foul. On the same day Nader also dropped in at a number of other schools in the state, accepting only token payments in some cases, or none at all. Confronted with what his agent had wrought, Nader lamented: "God! I'm being hoisted on my own petard!" The explanation was that the C.O.C.C...
...Foul Ball. By his action, Nixon sought to minimize the wrath of the nation's 3,500,000 unionized and politically potent hardhats. In January, he asked labor and management chiefs to devise a voluntary program to stabilize the industry's skyscraping costs (TIME, Feb. 15). Two weeks ago, he sent Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Harvard Economics Professor John Dunlop to negotiate with the building trades' executive council at Bal Harbour, Fla. Dunlop tried to win labor's tacit consent to a temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage...
...meantime Dover and Wilkinson were making sure the Bruins never got the ball past midcourt. The Bruins never could recover and were forced to foul. "If we had been down by two we could've set up but behind by four all you can do is hope," Alainro lamented...
Coach Jack Barnaby has also been worried about how to psyche the team. "They're not up as much as I'd like them to be." he said. "I guess I'll give them a speech telling them it would be pretty stupid to foul up a brilliant season like this with a less to Yale...