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Medenica and Aronson will spend as much time as they can this winter putting together promotion kits, trying to pour some advertising dollars into the car. While top-level teams have no problems selling and space on their cars (witness the E-Z Wider car of two seasons ago), it may be difficult to sell potential advertisers because of the obscurity of Formula Ford races. The two entrepreneurs will also seek patrons wherever possible. Medenica's commitment to the effort is complete--he says he decided to attend Business. School in order to make enough money to keep racing...
...bills would not pay a major portion of a student's tuition, but would give a needed financial boost to those paying high tuition fees, thus opening up a wider range of school and college opportunities to students, Skip Priest, an assistant to Packwood, said yesterday...
...justified in its decision to fund the lesbian organization. The lesbians are apparently planning to use the money to pay speakers, fund a poetry reading, and hire a film about lesbian mothers. These events could conceivably reach a wider Radcliffe audience than just the gay group alone. That by itself would make the grant proper, although plans to use the money for purely social, internal purposes would not warrant the funding. Besides the immediate uses of the money, however, the decision was correct because the group does represent a group of Radcliffe women with special interests, just as an organization...
...same time, the Administration showed its concern with war on a much wider scale by requesting $245 million in development funds for a mobile missile system and indicated that it would step up research on a satellite killer to counter Soviet advances in that sphere (see following story). The mobile missile, called M-X (for "missile experimental"), would replace the Minuteman in a decade; by then the Soviets would presumably have the means to wipe out the Minuteman's fixed underground silos. The MX, at a total cost of at least $40 billion, could be moved rapidly along tracks...
Rudolph Valentino was among the most put-upon of movie stars. Forced to live in-and with-a screen persona that could not have been at wider variance from his true spirit; bearing the crushing load of fame in an era unfamiliar with violations of privacy; bewildered by two absurd marriages and harassed by studio bosses intent on protecting their "property" at the expense of the man, he provides the stuff of primal screen drama...