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...Dunlop's moves paid off. The Committee on Fellowships and Other Aid (CFOA) released an interim proposal for graduate aid that placated enough Union members and sympathizers so that Union growth leveled off and a strike vote taken in May narrowly failed...
Steiner still hasn't handed down his decision, but in the interim all kinds of fun things have been happening: if the plan died today, it still would've been worth the trouble in comic relief alone. Newspapers outside Harvard who have been desperate for college pranks and riots jumped on the story as an unmistakably hot property. The Globe caught on right away, and United Press International followed, claiming that sales had already begun at the Union "news-stand." Then the Times converted the UPI dispatch into a judiciously subdued couple of inches--all this within two days...
...convention, an elected body that for more than a year has been drafting a new constitution that would change the Philippines' American-style presidential government to a British-style parliamentary system. To ensure passage, the measure specified that those who voted for it would automatically become members of the interim parliament. Those who voted against it would, in effect, be writing an end to their political careers. Not surprisingly, the provision passed by a lopsided margin of 264 to 13?not including the votes of six members who were in hiding and six who had been detained...
Halfback Carl Garrett was suspended yesterday by the New England Patriots for the rest of the season. Garrett, the team's leading ground gainer, was suspended by interim head coach Phil Bengston and general manager. Upton Bell after he missed yesterday's practice...
...interim, existing airports could be expanded-though at immense expense. At Newark International, the total bill for expansion was a staggering $400 million, or more than double what it cost to build the field in the first place. Land is the most expensive element, mainly because airports usually attract development around them, becoming minicities in their own right. At Chicago's O'Hare, for example, land goes for $ 125,000 an acre-a price that airport economics cannot...