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Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...
This is not to say that Boston is not the most logical choice. In all probability it is; but a great deal of fog, not all of it accidental, has surrounded the whole question of where the center should be built. In contrast to the relative lack of public debate on the issue, cloakroom activity has been, conspicuous; the Senate bill, for example, reached the floor thanks to a mysterious change of heart on the part of several members of the Senate Space Committee. There has also been talk that besides its abundance of scientists, Massachusetts enjoys, in this matter...
...future of management's proposed work-rules changes is now well befogged. How soon the fog lifts will depend upon the eleven members (six Democrats, five Republicans) of the ICC. Said ICC Chairman Laurence...
...said the weary oceanographer, is every bit as tough as "standing in a gale and fog on top of a building a mile and a half high and trying to lower a pingpong ball on a string into a tomato can on the sidewalk...
...drilled pit crew, its own stable of daredevil riders. Honda's Jim Redman, 31, a Southern Rhodesian, stole the show: he averaged 95.6 m.p.h. to win the Lightweight race, came back two days later to win the Junior race as well-averaging 94.9 m.p.h. despite pelting rain and fog. "At one stage," said Redman, "I was hanging on with one hand, using the other like a windshield wiper on my goggles...