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...economy was the crisis that most worried Americans as Gerald Ford held his tenth press conference as President last week. He opened, however, with an emotional plea for Congress to approve additional military aid to tottering Cambodia. Said Ford: "We want an end to the killing and a negotiated settlement. But there is no hope of success unless the Congress acts quickly to provide the necessary means for Cambodia to survive." But Ford let it be known that he might be willing to settle for less than his original request for $222 million in aid (see THE WORLD...
...adolescence, Cher had started perfecting a signature she regarded as suitable for a star to sign in autograph books, and after the tenth grade she quit school forever. Around this time she had a first-and last-experience with a drug, Benzedrine. It left her "deadly opposed to drugs in every form, in every way." At 16 she left home rather than go on quarreling with her mother about "life-styles...
Home Again. One of the few telling and truthful moments in the film occurs during a press conference in Port Arthur, Texas, the home town Joplin despised and always tried to conquer. On this occasion, Joplin had returned for her tenth high school reunion ("They laughed me out of the state," she announced on a Dick Cavett show, "and now I'm goin' back"). The questions the local press cooked up were trite-was Janis happy in school? Did she get in vited to the prom? But her answers, out of the direct pressures of the circumstances, were...
Harvard's Jim McMahon should gain a spot on the Crimson's top ten career scoring list this weekend. McMahon has 105 points, one less than George McManama in tenth place and two less than Kent Parrot in the ninth slot. Captain Randy Roth needs only four points to move into the fourth position...
...Tenth-ranked Penn is now 22-4 overall and 12-1 in the league. The Quakers close the regular season tonight at the Palestra against Brown, which lost to Princeton, 61-57. The Tigers, 11-2 in the league, play Yale Saturday...