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...backed out of a play in which his part obliged him to denounce democracy as "disgusting." Fearful that the iconoclasm of his lines might alienate Buckingham Palace ("I don't want to be in anything subversive") and discouraged by lukewarm critical reception, Harrison announced that he would abandon Nigel Dennis' August for the People by mid-month. Among the lesser troupers who will be made jobless by Harrison's decision was the gifted actress who portrayed his mistress Rachel Roberts, 33, daughter of a Welsh Baptist minister and favored traveling companion of aspiring knight bachelor Harrison...
Last week Columnist Casey's latest shock was front-page news in Boston. He blandly urged U.S. Catholics to abandon parochial grade schools and concentrate instead on high schools and colleges. "Since it is quite clear by now that Catholic schools are not going to get any financial aid from the federal government," Father Casey argued, "we should move our resources to the front of greatest challenge...
...speech on the third anniversary of his revolutionary regime, volatile Kassem repeated last week that he would not use force to "liberate" Kuwait-and in the next breath threatened force against Britain. "We shall launch a bitter war against the British if they do not heed right and abandon oppression!" he told the crowds after reviewing a 2½-hour parade of troops and weapons in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
...strong mate for Northeast Airlines. His goal is to strengthen the airlines so that they will be able to make the next technological leap forward-to supersonic jets by the early 1970's-without massive federal subsidy. To accomplish that, Chairman Boyd believes that the CAB must abandon its policy of rewarding the weak to keep them alive. "That era has passed," says Boyd. "My philosophy is one of consolidation...
Aware of such statistical problems, the National Safety Council concluded six years ago that its estimates had outlived their usefulness and decided to abandon them. But, complains N.S.C. Statistics Division Director Gene Miller, the wire services balked. "They said that if the Council didn't do it, they would find somebody else, or do it themselves. So we might as well do it and do as competent a job as possible." In that spirit, the corpse counters last week closed their books on July 4 and looked ahead to Labor...