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...overoptimistic expansion soon reddened the ink again. "If we were a private corporation," admits Robens, "the stockholders would have been bankrupt a long time ago." The government's protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best friend. Mine unions now call Robens "the self-worshiping Socialist...
...could "no longer function." Wilson decided that the only hope left was to phone Smith directly. He booked the call for 5 a.m., argued with the Rhodesian Prime Minister for 16 minutes, at one point politely told him he was being influenced by "thugs." It was all to no avail. "I was speaking to a confused and unhappy man," Wilson told the House of Commons. "He has been under intolerable pressures from some of his unreasoning extremists of the Rhodesian Front. I told him I thought they wanted their heads examined, or they must have a death wish on them...
...substantive differentiation of Ed.D. and Ph.D. in Education is a more difficult problem, with which sundry committees have wrestled, to small avail, for many years...
...seven and is fetched up by "Gramaw." At 17, he meets a girl named Chalkline Annie and makes the scene on a pile of old carpets in the storeroom of the neighborhood movie house. After that, "the persons, female and male alike, who were so eager to avail themselves of his splendid body never appeared to notice that it was inhabited by Joe Buck...
...Serious Decisions." All to no avail. Last week the President said somberly to associates: "I've tried delaying and limiting the bombings. But how can I continue to do that? I can't. Thirteen times we've tried various approaches and proposals to get the Communists to the bargaining table-without result. It is going to take some tears and some blood...