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...Federal Register on July 1 (the start of fiscal 1974), a mandatory step before implementing an Executive order. Yet the Manpower Administration has received no further instructions, there is no time left to meet the publishing deadline and the staff sits around waiting for the fall of the ax that no one seems to have remembered to swing...
...case had their suspicions justified. While being questioned by police in a new round of interrogation about the murder, Jean-Pierre suddenly confessed to the murder. When the police refused to accept the confession, he took them to his brother's apartment, where they found a bloody ax and the girl's glasses. The case should have ended there. It has not. Judge Pascal and most of the townspeople are still convinced of Leroy's guilt. Although out of prison, the hapless notary is still formally charged with murder. The charge will stick until the case...
...method of disposing of the condemned: give them razor blades in the hope that they would not use them merely to shave. Alternatively, he suggested dispensing anesthetic pills, to be followed by old-fashioned beheading. Never a man to shirk his public duty, Guinness even offered to wield the ax himself...
...Union member I am grateful for the genuine support we received from The Crimson; however, journalistic support frozen and suspended at the level of ax-grinding becomes profoundly anti-Humanist and methodologically obscurantist as well. The sword cuts both ways, simultaneously on two levels, personal and transpersonal. Support in such a manner, while it tries to get its licks in (and thereby reveals ironically the extent of the reification of consciousness--even of the staff of a supposedly progressive newspaper), also extends and intensifies the forms of reification. Larry Vaughan
...conspicuous part of Government not to feel the ax yet is the White House staff, which the President has promised to reduce drastically. Another advance man, Kenneth Cole Jr., 34, who used to work for J. Walter Thompson, replaces John Ehrlichman as executive director of the Domestic Council. The post will not be as significant as it used to be, because the council has lost several members who have moved to the executive departments. It will, however, absorb the Intergovernmental Council, which was headed by Spiro Agnew during the first term. Ehrlichman, meanwhile, will remain the President's chief...