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...eligible voters among the 2.5 million Italians working in other EEC countries, casting a ballot in the June 20-21 election is no simple matter. Since Italy makes no provision for absentee balloting, the worker must travel home, forfeit up to seven days of pay or vacation, spend about $80 on rail fare, and endure at least two days' riding each way on jampacked trains that provide standing room only. Yet more than 300,000 Italian workers traveled home for the country's 1972 general elections, and the ride-in vote is expected to be even larger this...
...mound during practice. Scraping himself together, he sips a few cold ones in the dugout while watching his team take the field for the first game. Score at the end of the first half of the first inning: 26 to zip. Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) figures it is time to forfeit. He has nothing to lose but his pains, and there are nine of them on his team, with a couple of alternates thrown in for good measure...
...this represents a troubling question for journalists: where to draw the line of discretion or taste. The fact is that Presidents and other major political figures to some extent forfeit their right to privacy by the career they have chosen. Their state of mind and their morals are subjects of legitimate concern to citizens and hence to journalists, even when the leaders are out of power or dead but especially in the case of a deep national crisis involving a President's character and personality...
...weekend was also a disaster for Yale's Jim Bennett, the Ivy League's best wrestler and first NCAA champion in 16 years. He suffered a serious knee injury and had to forfeit the championship match...
Even if there had been no immediate layoffs of workers as Frank Weissbecker, director of Food Services, insisted, transfers to different shifts would have been unavoidable. Schedule changes would have resulted in fewer hours for many workers and forced others to forfeit their jobs rather than accept new schedules which conflicted with personal obligations...