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...strike in the first place. Some of the 23 girls on the strike -- and the 50 who held a one day sympathy strike -- obviously were not as intense about getting their own apartments as were the handful of leaders. But all of them, and others who only observed from afar, agreed that they had been tricked, deceived, and put off through three months of bureaucratic mismanagement. Had the dean of residence told them of the lottery a reasonable length of time before it began, the girls might have been able to work out a method of selection to which both...
...that would extend westward into Central Park from the Met's north wing to house the temple. The showcase would be supported by selfsupporting, interlocking trusses that would be virtually invisible; the whole temple would be lit up at night so that its contents could be seen from afar by passers-by on Fifth Avenue...
Perhaps the classic case of Harry's single-mindedness is recounted by retired TIME Vice President Allen Grover: "World War II had just begun. Staffers scurried back from afar. I was in early and was summoned at once to the boss's office. He was writing a memo on something about TIME's National Affairs section and stunned me by ignoring the war completely. When I tried to bring it up, he gave me some chore and dismissed me. Later that day I got one of his screeds on copy paper saying, 'Al, see me Friday...
...clogging the sidewalks and snarling traffic along the 1.8-mile stretch. Even that might have been overlooked had the Strip been tucked out of the way. But it is a main thoroughfare between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, heavily traveled by both the local citizenry and tourists from afar. The politicians, the property owners and the police-the squares and the fuzz, as the "Strippies" call them-decided that the Strip's image badly needed reburnishing...
Despite their understandable desire to see U.S. troops leave once they have done their job, Asians may need some time to get accustomed to an American presence and protection based on mobility from afar-and hence largely invisible. Some Pentagon planners foresee a transition period in Asia that will be marked by a sort of Yo-Yo strategy. In times of tension, there could be U.S. maneuvers and training exercises that would dispatch men and planes to friendly Southeast Asian fields, pull the patrolling Seventh Fleet into allied ports. Then, as the tension subsided, the G.I.s would be pulled back...