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...people making all that fuss about Robert Manry's 3,200-mile crossing of the Atlantic. [Aug. 27]? The Dutch retired Air Force lieutenant general, Hans Maurenbrecher, sailed, all by himself, more than 12,000 miles from Holland to New Zealand between July 14, 1964 and April...
...convinced that the addition of a minute amount of fluorine (usually in the form of sodium fluoride) is the best way to prevent tooth decay, a large number of citizens' groups loudly oppose it, contending that fluoridation is a Communist plot to poison the nation. Amidst this fuss, two University of Rochester professors last week published a massive monograph with all the pertinent facts, pro and con, on the matter. In their 786-page Fluorine Chemistry, Volume IV (Academic Press; $28), Dr. Harold C. Hodge and Dr. Frank A. Smith compile the important evidence that has been gathered since...
...court injunction restraining Shuttlesworth from spending any more church money, and filed suit for an accounting of Revelation's funds since he became pastor. Shuttlesworth hit back with a court order of his own, restraining the dissident leaders from disrupting any more Sunday services. He charges that the fuss is all part of a right-wing plot, fostered by the dissidents' white lawyer, to discredit the civil rights movement...
...point in time when it will benefit from fresh vision and new leadership." Characteristically, she then proceeded to instruct her faculty on how to elect a committee to help choose her successor, and even on what to do in case of a tie vote. Whereupon, without fuss or fluster, she skipped off to a secluded vacation. Few faculty members shared her serenity and poise, and many failed to squelch the tears that flowed at the thought of Miss Clapp's leaving...
Pearson seemed surprised by the fuss. Denis had already quietly resigned; Pearson now accepted Guy Rouleau's resignation and appointed Chief Justice Dorion as a one-man commission of public inquiry. To make matters worse, in the midst of the investigation Racketeer Rivard escaped from Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, has not been seen since...