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...before the team arrived in Colorado, the temperatures hung around the mid-70s during the day. The day of their first game and the days of all the games had highs in the 20s. There was snow, and the fields were rock hard. The only consolation may be that next year's tournament will be in North Carolina...
Central is an institution in which the faculty is effectively deprived of genuine decision-making power, under a Faculty Code which it had refused to accept. When this Code was about to be put into effect in the mid-70s, it was viewed as so objectionable that all major faculty organizations on the campus joined in an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at preventing its being implemented, making particular objection to the reduction of the faculty role to a purely advisory one. But judges, especially in the lower courts, seem reluctant to interfere with the plenary authority of university administrators...
...mid-70s, Lippmann warned fellow journalists against "their need and their desire to be on good terms with the powerful," who were not only sources of news but dispensers of "many kinds of favor, privilege, honor and self-esteem." Later, embittered by L.B.J., he put it more succinctly: "I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, 'Put not your trust in princes...
...fact, the aerospace industry is the U.S.'s second largest exporter (after agriculture), and sales of commercial jets and spare parts make up $5 billion of the industry's $9 billion contribution to the U.S. balance of payments. Until the mid-70s, U.S. planemakers had about 80% of the commercial market in the non-Communist world. But the technological success of the Anglo-French Concorde convinced Europeans that they could become powers in mass-transport aircraft competition. The Airbus consortium of West Germany, France, Britain, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium rolled out the economical A300 and smaller, more...
...finally in order for the summit by midday Friday. But first, both of the principals changed their plans to take advantage of the cloudless, mid-70s day and do some sightseeing. Carter, accompanied by Rosalynn, Amy, Cyrus Vance and his wife Grace, motored west of Vienna to the town of Klosterneuburg, where the Vienna woods give way to vineyards along the Danube. There they lunched on the sun-dappled patio of a restaurant at a 12th century abbey. Brezhnev took a drive through downtown Vienna, traversing the Ring, passing the Hofburg, and winding up in the courtyard of the Sch?...