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Catherine B. Cass, president of the city school boards association, reported that New York's 32 local school boards were "furious" at the central board's concession to the teachers in cutting the school day. "Parents don't like the shorter days either," she added. Stephen Desposito, principal of Intermediate School 59 in Queens, said simply that the board seemed to be working with "funny money" that it might not have. That was a mild way of saying that the union had extracted a dangerous settlement from a city on the verge of bankruptcy...
While the main concern of the players will of course be on the field yesterday, talk ran fast and furious over the "injustice" of the NCAA's new regulation restricting the number of players allowed to suit up to 60. Jiggetts termed the rule "idiotic" and Antonellis voiced the team's sentiment: "It's unfair for guys to practice all week and work just as hard and not have anything to look forward to," he said...
...copy you sent me has been cut up and pasted into cards in an information file. I'm sure it will be more informative than anything else I have seen or will be distributed. So I hope I can get another copy for my parents, who are furious. Otherwise I'll have to return the file to the Home Recipe people (or do I get to keep it as a free gift?) and tape it together so that the family can read it as well...
...White House was furious. No more classified information would be forthcoming, was the word, until the House committee stops its "unilateral" declassification of documents...
Perhaps most important, Castro gradually convinced the U.S. that Cuba was no longer "exporting revolution" to the hemisphere. When Senator George McGovern visited Cuba last May, Castro discussed the 1962 missile crisis with him. "I was furious when Khrushchev compromised," Castro said. "But I realize in retrospect that he reached the proper settlement with Kennedy. If my position had prevailed, there would have been a terrible war. I was wrong...