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...taking disciplinary action against any of the students involved. Even if the university were prepared to ask that charges be dropped, the Alameda County District Attorney's office would ignore the request, so that part of the second demand is impracticable and irrelevant. But for the Berkeley administration to compound the situation with discipline of its own would be to treat the strikers as criminals. No step would be more sure to stall a solution to the present crisis...
Nowhere were the protocol problems thornier than in Thailand, but U.S. diplomats succeeded in persuading the Thais to relax a few of the rules. At Borombinam Mansion, a yellow stucco building where the Johnsons were put up inside the mile-square Grand Palace compound built by the founders of Thailand's Chakri dynasty two centuries ago, the U.S. was allowed to erect a giant antenna for the President's worldwide communications; normally, the Thais are reluctant to permit structures to soar higher than their ubiquitous Buddhist temples. When Johnson choppered into the Royal Plaza near Chitra-lada Palace...
...Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, shortchanges the potent U.S. bankers to concentrate on those of London's City. But his stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody's compound interest...
...bright balloons, babies and a big business tycoon. Abristle with private enterprise, Tycoon Jason Robards has filled an open date on his calendar by installing Jane in a company-owned apartment, where he can write her off as a tax loss and drop over once every week to compound his interest. Then Dean Jones stumbles onto the scene as a gamesome competitor, and right behind him comes Rosemary Murphy, playing her Broadway role as the wronged wife, a woodwind still adither with genteel echoes of Bryn Mawr and Short Hills...
...plainly suffers from haphazard organization. Moreover, he has to contend with the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who became the Liberal Party's gubernatorial choice after losing the Democratic nomination, and is sure to siphon off votes that would otherwise have gone to O'Connor. To compound O'Connor's woes, Rockefeller's progressive record, notably an increase in the state minimum wage to $1.50, has cost the Democrats some of their customary labor support. The 250,000-member Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York has endorsed Rocky. The state A.F.L...