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Last week, Beame tried to get more work out of 100,000 city office and hospital workers by ending the tradition of shortening summer workdays by an hour. Outraged, Victor Gotbaum, the local AFSCME leader, said that he would seek to have the mayor's edict overturned through arbitration...
...some flee altogether--by choice or by Administrative Board edict--to the outside world for a time, to puzzle things out and try to determine where they fit into Harvard, and where it fits into their life...
...enemies list of the Hearst press since 1941. Reason: his movie classic, Citizen Kane, a powerful profile closely based on the life and times of Founder-Despot William Randolph Hearst. For 33 years, even after the boss's death in 1951, the Hearst newspapers scrupulously observed his edict and barred Welles from their pages-except for an occasional slip, usually followed by an editorial inquiry. Then six months ago Entertainment Editor Ray Loynds of the Hearst Los Angeles Herald-Examiner began the vindication of Welles on his own initiative by finally reviewing Citizen Kane on the movie page...
...larkish script concerns a descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake...
...JANUARY 1973, the U.S. government--specifically, the Federal Aviation Administration--ordered every airline to search all passengers and their luggage, at every airport in the country, prior to every flight. It was a sweeping and unprecedented edict, but the order was not controversial at the time and has not become constroversial in the intervening 21 months. Watergate provided other constitutional issues to worry about, all of them more dramatic than airport security. But now might be a good time to consider the implications of this sort of blanket screening system...