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...action . . . These people are croaking me"). He finally quits to sell roofing and siding. In the film's last scene, The Badger stands framed in the doorway of his Florida motel room, confessing failure to a fellow salesman and barely brushing past an emotional breakdown...
Earlier, Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, commented on the same topic. Despite what he saw as a breakdown in the military's public relations, "there is probably no one in this country who is more appalled by the use of toxic chemicals than the military," Schelling said...
...most pressing problem is the tiring of snow crews and the breakdown of equipment which, up to now, has been operating at full efficiency. Wayland, Scituate, and Peabody reported critical shortages of equipment due to breakdowns, leaving side-streets impassable and many homes inaccessible to fire trucks ambulances...
Barring a hijacking of her airliner or a breakdown of her police escort, Carol Burnett, the Hasty Pudding Club's Woman of the Year, will arrive at the Pudding Clubhouse at 1:10 p.m. today. Y'all come and say hello...
...money? For an estimated 25% of the population, the answer is yes. For another 50%, medical care can be described as passable, but it is certainly not as good as it could and should be. For 25%, care is either inexcusably bad, given in humiliating circumstances, or nonexistent. The breakdown is not simply by social stratum: the rich do not necessarily get the best care, nor the poor the worst. Says Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service: "If even one American doesn't have access to a reasonable level of care, there's something...