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...within a few years. The system by which both types of appointments are made is the same, and the only distinctions are ones of prestige and of salary. Men of both ranks are guaranteed continuous employment until the age of 66, unless they demonstrate gross professional incompetence or commit flagrant moral or criminal offenses; needless to say, dismissals are unheard of at Harvard...
...coincidence, that formula is calculated to attack the most flagrant rights offenders in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and 34 counties in North Carolina. Under the bill, the Attorney General can abolish the literacy tests in those places for ten years. He also has the power to replace local registration officials with federal registrars...
...American capitalists in these countries, in the absence of which we would be free to promote our own revolutions against these dictators and could then offer large amounts of foreign aid in exchange for strict neutrality vis a vis the Great Red empires, can only be described as a flagrant offense to the American sense of fair play. Your attempt at covering up your total domination of Hanoi's foreign policy by ordering her to mold this policy around the Soviet Union's call for peaceful co-existence fools no one, and you cannot imagine how foolish you look...
...economic relations with any country because of its politics," he explained. "Britain isn't keen on Communism, but she trades with Peking and Cuba. We don't like apartheid, but we will trade with South Africa." How about South Africa's feeling toward such a flagrant violator of apartheid'? Last week, after Seretse's victory, South Africa announced that the travel ban imposed after his marriage to Ruth had been lifted. Seretse received the news with a wry smile...
Giscard's order is primarily aimed at the small bistros serving businessmen, Frenchmen dining en famille and centime-counting tourists. In Paris, bistro prices have risen as much as 50% in a year, while wholesale-food prices climbed only 2.8%. Such flagrant padding is noticeably adding to the growing disenchantment of many tourists with France. But bistro owners are nevertheless enraged at the new order. "French culinary art is being suffocated by government intervention," said a Parisian restaurateur. Another suggested that there are ways to get around the order: "You want to increase the price of tournedos...