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...their way. The Quad's only definite attraction to outsiders is Hilles Library, which is much more luxurious than the Yard's Lamont and is a great place to study when the Yard gets too noisy. Hilles's comfortable chairs and bright airy atmosphere contrast to Lamont's stiff wooden claustrophobia...
...economists are increasingly sanguine. Their latest estimate is that because of decontrol the price of gasoline will rise only 3? a gallon, and the nation's total oil bill will go up only $5.3 billion over the next twelve months. Main reason for their optimism: a belief that stiff competition among oil companies resulting from a world glut of crude will keep the price increases moderate...
...literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case in all of 37 novels. "An extraordinary little man!" Christie once wrote. "Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective, who had been portrayed on film by Actors Tony Randall, Albert Finney and others, had finally finished his long career. Old, infirm and wheelchair-ridden, he would meet his end in her next novel...
Cronkite was, of course, at his professional best, keeping a stiff upper lip throughout as the returns began to roll in. But even from the beginning, the vote was solidly democratic--the media heavies. Democratic regulars, and liberal-independent types were delerious...or, if not delerious, at least feeling a little vindicated. By the next morning it was officials; the Democratic party, now apparently veto-proof, would finally bring sweetness and light...
...star prosecution witness was Larry E. Williams, who said he had been hired by Gurney in 1971 to raise a "booster fund." Gurney denied that. They were indeed a somewhat contrasting pair. Gurney, Maine-born, Colby-and Harvard-educated, a successful lawyer, matinee-idol handsome, ramrod stiff (largely the result of a World War II sniper's hit that partly paralyzed him for two years); Williams, a husky, freckled youth, then 26, a dropout from Georgia Southern College, a former Avis car-rental agent. According to Williams' testimony, Gurney told him: "There's a large job that...