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...students, asked a group of Harvard students to discontinue the sale of specialized t-shirts purportedly celebrating Radcliffe's centennial. The shirts, which bore the slogans, "Once a Bitch, Always a Bitch," and "Radcliffe--Where the Women Come First," were reportedly selling well at the time of Epps's request. "We're not going to lose our shirts," one of the t-shirt salesmen remarked, we hope in jest...
...will be shifted to other financial aid programs. Wolfman says he is sorry the money arrived too late to be fully utilized, but the important precedent for the transfer has been set. "We'll get the full impact of the transfer next year when we make the same request, only earlier," Wolfman says...
...mission. The first two were charged with espionage and put in jail, where they remained last week in default of $2 million bail apiece. They face life imprisonment if convicted. Zinyakin, who has diplomatic immunity, may simply be sent home by the Soviets at the State Department's request. As is apt to happen in the spy business, the three had been doublecrossed by Ed, actually a loyal Navy officer who went along with the Russians to entrap them. His name is being withheld, but he may have to reveal himself when the case goes to court...
...drop at the base of a telephone pole on Fulner Street in South Amboy. Waiting for him there was a red coffee can containing $3,000, which brought his total payoff to $16,000. The can also held another message: "By the way, have you paid attention to my request to pass over to us films of the latest documents dated 1976-1978, if possible?" Some of the documents requested dealt with a secret underwater acoustic system that allows the Navy to identify Soviet submarines by then" distinctive sound patterns. The system can also tell a submarine's location...
...request of the U.S. Senate, the consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc. produced an ambitious plan for improving the U.S.'s performance. It proposes consolidating into one department the work of 31 federal agencies involved in tourism. A streamlining of the federal machinery might help, if it did not create more layers of bureaucracy. While the Little report dealt mainly with domestic tourism, the U.S. also needs a robust national tourist office-almost every European country has one-that could encourage travel by more aggressive advertising and information programs. At present, the U.S. Travel Service has only six branches...