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After the military program's banishment, Vanserg moved into its current phase, serving as a sort of refugee camp for misfit classes and offices. The registrar's office assigns classes to Vanserg only as a last resort, after all other University rooms are booked. This fall, inordinate numbers of students have classes there: portions of the building were subdivided and refurbished to ease the classroom shortage that renovations in Sever Hall brought on. The classes relocated, though, are still the usual Vanserg rag-bag of offerings from all corners of the Faculty...
Florida has plenty of small towns, but one is famous above all the rest: Palm Beach (pop. 9,700) is a plush, pastel resort for the very rich. Florida also has plenty of divorces: 75,000 last year, more than any other state but California and Texas. But the divorce trial under way at the Palm Beach County courthouse has, like the town, achieved an overcharged notoriety. For starters there is a prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper...
...comes closest to blaming the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), the Government lender of last resort. Last spring Fulton asked for $240,000 both to pay off his 1981 debt-his crop had been stunted by a late rain, then sold at desperately low prices-and to cover 1982 planting costs. The local FmHA offered him $55,000. "Farmers Home didn't tell us to get out of business," says his wife Sharon. "They just made it impossible for us to stay...
...deadliest of the mishaps occurred as a chartered Spanish DC-10, fully laden with 380 tourists bound for New York, was racing down the runway of the airport near the seaside resort of Málaga. As the aircraft approached the necessary takeoff speed of more than 180 m.p.h., the plane began to vibrate severely. Pilot Juan Pérez apparently responded by slamming on the brakes, although at that point there is usually neither enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin...
...current issue of his magazine, Podhoretz charges that to many of its critics "only Israel of all the states in the world is required to prove that its very existence-not merely its interest or the security of its borders-is in immediate peril before it can justify the resort to force...