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...when some still disputed new tests seemed to show that Disease had no more effect on slipped discs than did a placebo, Baxter Travenol withdrew its application and stopped producing the enzyme. Furthermore, because the company did not submit a new application to cover investigational treatments, use of Disease became illegal...
...MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS of February 5 further exposed the pervasiveness of the anti-Somoza consensus. In that election, 52 of the 132 candidates of the Conservative Party, the country's only legal opposition group (characterized by one Nicaraguan national at Harvard as "His Majesty's loyal opposition"), withdrew their candidacy in protest against the regime. And despite reported offers of free food and liquor in return for a pro-Somoza vote, government figures showed that only 143,000 out of 700,000 eligible voters voted...
...Harvard women fell to fourth place as the Ivy Swimming and Diving Championships came to an end. Yale held off Princeton by five points, 847-842, and Dartmouth edged past Harvard and into third place, 752-722. Penn, which withdrew yesterday because of sickness, finished with 261 points...
...Bishop Clarence Haden of Sacramento, a crusty conservative who celebrated Communion at their first national rally in St. Louis last September, but he decided to do nothing. At the St. Louis rally Charles Boynton, retired assistant bishop of New York City, privately pledged to do the honors but withdrew under doctor's orders just two weeks before the Denver ceremony...
Last week Webster, 53, was thinking about it. Seven weeks after Johnson withdrew his candidacy for health reasons, Webster was asked by President Carter to become the third director in the FBI's 43 year history, and he accepted. Explaining why he would give up his judgeship for the bureau's top post, he said: "I'm an old Navyman. I heard the bosun's pipe and the words 'Now hear this...