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...with as much as $25,000 in net assets could have qualified for rent help. Congress refused to appropriate funds for it, and many people thought that Weaver had thereby destroyed his chances of becoming HUD Secretary. Weaver now airily dismisses it all as "purely a printer's slip...
...personality will be widely accepted well before the year 2000. If a wife or husband seems to be unusually grouchy on a given evening, says Rand's Olaf Helmer, a spouse will be able to pop down to the corner drugstore, buy some anti-grouch pills, and slip them into the coffee. Or a lackadaisical person could be dosed into a sense of ambition. Electrical stimulus of brain areas has been shown to produce responses of fear, affection, laughter or sex arousal; such techniques, says Yale's Dr. Jose Delgado, "will certainly increase man's ability...
...Valley, the object of Operation Double Eagle, which began three weeks ago as part of a massive allied offensive in Binh Dinh province. The marines accounted for 312 enemy dead, but Double Eagle got its claws into little really organized opposition. Unfortunately, the enemy will likely soon slip back into fertile An Lao: Saigon does not have enough South Vietnamese troops to follow the marines in and carry out a permanent pacification. As a result, some 1,500 villagers who do not want to wait for the return of the Communists have already been escorted out of the valley...
...public session, the Council met for a mere 22 minutes. Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci tried to slip by his colleagues a motion calling for a 10 per cent raise in all city salaries. Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler weakened the motion by changing its wording...
...winless in their last nine outings, will be going all out to pull an upset for the Winter Carnival crowd that will fill every inch of small Davis Rink. But the Crimson has too much at stake and has been working too hard to let this one slip away as happened a week ago at Princeton...