Word: ap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston College, which has a 2-0 record after downing Navy and Tulane, is first in both polls though the Eagles edged Dartmouth by only one point, 169-168, in the AP tabulations...
...free-lance news photographer. I had been a free-lance photog in Boston one summer and had even made money off of it. We compared notes on edging out the other photographers at the secne of the news and beating them out in getting your pictures down to AP first. We went to the big demonstration downtown when Nixon was there and ran into a lot of Secret Service men. and photographers who all came smiling up to her and joked and stood around for hours. She later explained why they were all creeps and how you could always find...
...Monday the Committee submitted its proposal to the stockholders, who approved it. Normally the stockholders ten men who nominally hold the Coop stock in trust-have the power to change the by-laws themselves, but any amendment which alters the relationship between management and the members must also be ap-proval by a favorable majority of at least 25 per cent of the members...
...when a loan company sought to begin recovery of a debt from Christine Sniadach of Milwaukee by taking $31.59 from her $65 weekly pay, she ap pealed to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for help. Wisconsin's garnishment statute, similar to those in 16 other states, allows a creditor to tie up as much as 50% of a salary earner's wages even before a debt has been proved. Often, far more than a weekly bite is involved; the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that employers fire between 100,000 and 300,000 workers each year...
...question remains whether the right kind of pressure was presented by the battle for Hamburger Hill: a costly fight for a piece of real estate that was to be abandoned before the blood had hardly dried on it. There are U.S. officers who will privately admit that, given hindsight, Ap Bia should have been handled differently. Perhaps, they say, the 101st moved up too close before ascertaining how many Communists were dug in atop the mountain. Perhaps the peak should have been more thoroughly blasted by air and artillery bombardment before the soldiers assaulted it. But, says one officer...