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Herbert Shaw, director of the Medical Information in the University News Office, said yesterday that although the professors had a bullhorn, they did not disturb the commencement proceedings...
...only at the insistence of Pope Paul VI and the urging of President Nixon, who both wanted to improve East-West relations, that Mindszenty agreed to go. Even then, according to his own account, he refused to accept a church document specifying that he would make no statements to disturb détente...
...Communist-controlled Viet Minh. But instead of winning nationalists away from Ho Chi Minh's camp, they are driving them to it." Excerpt: "Saigon belongs to the French in the day and the Viet Minh at night. The faint, sporadic sputtering of machine-gun fire and thudding artillery disturb the night's peace...
...what disturbs Hersey most about his week with the president is that he never sees policy made. On Wednesday Ford proposes an aviation and space industry show at Cape Canaveral, which is quickly dubbed "a sophisticated Disneyland" by one of his advisers, but this is the closest he comes to guiding the national destiny. This feeling also seems to disturb a large part of the public. In December, a Newsweek poll found that 57 per cent of the country felt that Ford's advisers make foreign policy on their own, and over one-third of the sample felt that this...
...food chains-flamboyant stores plus a heavy volume of take-out orders and quick turnover of customers-often is also the formula for trouble. Streets for blocks around become littered with emblemed boxes, cups and bags; double-parking near the outlet causes traffic jams; transients drawn by inexpensive food disturb-and sometimes menace-local residents. Indeed, some Manhattan community groups charge that the fast-food joints attract not only raucous youths and loiterers but also pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts...