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...Yale's Executive Committee-six of whose 22 members are students-can override the suspension with a lesser or more severe punishment. The committee met with the students for four hours Wednesday and agreed to override the rule and let them remain in their rooms and eat in the dining halls...
Clark Mollenhoff has not had to wait. He used to be the toughest-some would say most demonic-reporter in Washington. Mollenhoff helped unearth the scandals involving Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby Baker and many lesser operators. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his "persistent inquiry into labor racketeering." Now Mollenhoff is a White House deputy counsel charged with digging out Government malfeasance and corruption from the inside. He has scoured the record of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., and has flatly rejected as character assassination the conflict of interest charges Democrats have leveled against the Supreme Court nominee...
...lesser-known privileges of being Mayor of a City (or a governor or President for that matter) is issuing proclamations. Under this practice, which dates back at least to Roman times, a public official issues a statement setting aside a day when the citizens in his jurisdiction will honor a particularly worthy cause...
Despite the tie. Harvard coach Seamus Malin was not discouraged. "A lesser team would have thrown up their hands today. I was really pleased by the way our guys refused to quit in the fourth quarter." he said...
...second and third periods were uneventful except for the outstanding play of Meyers in the net. Meyers who moves very well despite a painful knee injury blocked several shots that would have been goals if anybody with lesser range had been in the nets...