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March 7: Harvard got a cheering letter from the National Science Foundation announcing that the NSF had boosted its 1969 grants to Harvard by $300,000. But the increase was just enough to offset previous cuts and barely brought the NSF grant total up to the 1968 level...
...Financial Aid Office announced that it would increase scholarships next year, but not by enough to offset students fee increases. The Office predicted that students would have to spend $510 more to go to Harvard next year--$400 more for tuition, $60 more for board, and $50 only about half the new expenses...
...George Meany derides "people who build houses with their mouths." "Romney," he says, "has a fixation in his mind that you can turn out houses off a factory line like you turn out cars." But factory production of houses and room-sized components is an increasingly successful way to offset rising costs-in areas where unions and local laws allow such industrial methods to be used. U.S. Steel, Boise Cascade, National Homes, Guerdon Industries, Crane Co., Borg-Warner and many other firms have entered the field with ready-to-use rooms, baths or entire house sections...
These awards helped to offset the disappointment of the NCAA selection of teams for the District I playoffs. Coach John J. Connelly, chairman of the selection committee, announced yesterday that Boston University and the University of Massachusetts will play each other at Amherst the weekend of May 31 for the right to represent New England in the NCAA World Series in Omaha...
...fought hard, too; John Ince, for example. At one point in the fourth period, Ince, who is not always eager to mix it up with the big boys, knocked Yale's much larger Carl Bates out of bounds to give the Crimson the ball. But such positive elements were offset by other less desirable things. Some might have noticed the number of hasty shots taken by the second midfield...