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Fourteen out of the fifteen New Haven employees voted to form a union several weeks ago because "management just couldn't be talked to" about theft and heroin traffic in the New Haven restaurant, Cooper said. The management locked up the building after a strike by all non-management employees and a boycott by the surrounding community...
Another type of well-adjusted American must be very familiar to the long-suffering Indochinese. When the French governors and advisers moved out of their mansions on the banks of the Mekong fifteen years ago, this species of American moved in. Not for him the tract houses and all-electric kitchens of the American rank-and-file; if he had wanted that life style, he could have stayed Stateside...
Foolish Elders. To prepare Britons for the changeover, involving three new silver coins and three bronze ones (see chart), the Decimal Currency Board launched a $3,000,000 educational campaign. Posters went on display in 950 cities and towns. Fifteen million copies of a decimal currency guide were sent to households throughout the country, including booklets in Welsh and Braille. Television spots urged: "Think decimal!" The BBC put a 13-year-old schoolboy named Sebastian on its breakfast program to explain to his foolish elders how simple decimalization is. Listeners loathed...
...driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...
...like the Committee of Fifteen before it, has dealt only with issues arising from political demonstrations. The Resolution permits the CRR to consider many other violations, such as those concerning all sorts of damage to University property. The individual filing charges decides whether he will place them with the CRR or with the Ad Board, a panel of Senior Tutors and other administrators that meets regularly to discuss different types of disciplinary cases. Before the occupation of University Hall in April 1969, the Ad Board considered all disciplinary cases. Now, the CRR is authorized to handle charges of interference with...