Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerry Cole '64 filed a complaint on April 2 charging Councilors Daniel J. Clinton and Thomas W. Danehy with violating Section 107 of the city charter--the section prohibiting councilors from interfering with the appointment or removal of city officials...
...getting word back were problems for the newsmen. In palmier days American troops had provided helicopters, telephone links and logistical support. Now the South Vietnamese army ran the show, and it was studiously indifferent. When some commercial flights within the country were suspended, newsmen had to turn to charter planes. Said NBC'S TV News vice president, Richard Fischer: "We are totally in the hands of the various crooks who run charter services...
Died. Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, 63, hardhitting Hall of Fame outfielder; of an apparent heart attack; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rambunctious "gas house gang" of the 1930s, the muscular Medwick, one of baseball's best bad-ball batters, dredged ankle-high pitches out of the dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game...
Legally, their argument was a long shot-and it missed. In 1947 and 1950, the court had turned down similar claims by California, Texas and Louisiana, based on "tradition" rather than royal charter. The Federal Government's jurisdiction over foreign affairs, foreign commerce and national defense, said the court, gave it title and rights to minerals from the coastline outward to sea. In 1953 Congress returned to the states their rights out to the three-mile limit, but no farther. In U.S. v. Maine, the court last week said that the states are not entitled to an inch more...
BAWS does not have a legal charter or a shiny new headquarters building along the Potomac. But scattered throughout the Government are thousands of men and women who depend on it for their livelihood. Other thousands who gave more than a decade of their most creative years to BAWS feel compelled to continue their search for vindication of their positions...