Word: canceled
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Cook Industries President Edward Cook said he was told at the White House that halting the grain deal was a "political" gesture and "that if we didn't cancel the sale, Congress would impose [mandatory export] controls." The grain sale was held back on the eve of the Administration's economic proposals, and Ford was clearly not eager to have the inflationary specter of a large grain export dangling before the public-and the Democrats. The Republicans and the nation are still smarting from the "great grain robbery" of 1972, when the Soviets secretly bought up some...
Samuel Gilfix, head of the University's parking office, said yesterday all 333 remaining parking spaces already have been assigned to students. The parking office has created a waiting list for sign-ups in the event of cancellations, although Gilfax said few students cancel during the school year...
...Congress is moving to tidy things up. Due for action this week is a bill that would 1) cancel past edicts and 2) give Congress the right to end any emergency during its first six months...
Last Saturday, OSTWS forced the Adams House Film Society to cancel its screening of "Birth of a Nation" on the grounds that the film was to be shown in a context which did not adequately mitigate its offensive racist elements. On Sunday, about fifty members of this organization gathered outside the location where the Currier House Film Society had planned to show "Birth of a Nation" at an introductory meeting for old and new film society members. The OSTWS demonstrators seemed intent on preventing the screening, as they had at Adams House. As it turned out, the issue was academic...
...husband had scheduled a birthday celebration for her at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. It was not that he liked country music; he was anxious to stay on the good side of the South in his fight against impeachment. "I do or die," says Pat, "but I never cancel out." For much of the evening Nixon was obsessed with trying to work a yoyo up on the stage. "It hurt me to see it," said one of Pat's aides. "He ignored her all evening while he messed with that silly yo-yo." Pat offered no complaint...