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Lash said that the woman, whom police do not want identified, was "badly shaken but not hysterical. She asked for a safety pin to attach her skirt," he added...
...Finance Committee fails to send the bill to the floor with a favorable report, as now seems certain, Administration backers may try to attach FAP to a Social Security bill regarded as sure to pass. But without the support of Finance Committee members, the effort has little chance...
...through the first day, we waited in vain for the Jordanian army to acknowledge our existence. At one point, some photographers and TV cameramen ventured into the hotel garden, hoping to attach themselves to a group of soldiers and get closer to the war. The soldiers waved them back and fired over their heads. Undaunted, the reporters climbed to the balconies of the hotel with their equipment. A Swedish cameraman waved to a Bedouin soldier in an armored car and was promptly shot in the leg. By some miracle, there were no more casualties among...
...high drama, nothing beats the weekly "singles" meeting at the Manhattan headquarters of Columbia Records. Into a Danish-modern conference room nervously file a dozen or so highly paid executives, who open their attaché cases and go to work deciding what 45-r.p.m. singles to release that week. Musical careers hang on the outcome. So, in the long run, do the financial fortunes of the company itself. One morning this July the conferees were vigorously debating the merits of three songs in a new LP album when President Clive J. Davis took the floor and picked...
...pushers or bombers. Dances haven't required that one partner lead the other for years, anyway. Chivalry will transfer itself to those who need it, or deserve respect: old people, admired people, anyone with an armload of packages. Women with normal work identities will be less likely to attach their whole sense of self to youth and appearance; thus there will be fewer nervous breakdowns when the first wrinkles appear. Lighting cigarettes and other treasured niceties will become gestures of mutual affection. "I like to be helped on with my coat," says one Women's Lib worker...