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...Most of the world's governments are becoming increasingly bureaucratic and secretive. A case in point is the Pentagon's passion for classifying every document in sight. If those SECRET stamps were used less frequently, spies would be a lot less busy trying to grab often totally unimportant material...
...total earnings from Chile in that period," complained Kennecott President Frank Milliken, whose firm has been a particularly good corporate citizen in Chile. Said Anaconda President John Place: "Allende's accounting theory is nothing more than a thin pretext for confiscation. He's now contrived to grab the world's biggest open-pit copper mine [Anaconda's Chuquicamata], plus a second major underground mine, and not pay a dime...
...that was with 11 sophomores starting on the 22-man squad. They're all back, including the Lions' sensational quarterback Don Jackson, who passed for 223 yards and two touchdowns against to grab Ivy Back-of-the-Week honors...
...behavior of the Election Commission has been erratic at best and outrageous at worst. Students attempting to register have been confronted with a whole series of arbitrary requirements. The success of an individual's attempt to register depends upon a grab bag of variables--the time of day, length of hair, clothing, smell--and a set of ever-changing semi-legal questions which may or may not be asked by an individual registrar. Conflicting reasons are often given for refusals to register...
...payoff may yet elude him. Despite his strong showing in the primary, he faces an uphill fight to try to grab one of the nine seats on the council. There will be 18 names on the ballot in November. Six of them will be incumbents, and all of these finished in the top nine in the primary: men like Chris Iannella, Frederick Langone, Dapper O'Neill, who have been running for office for years. It seems unlikely that any of them will stumble before November; no one in Boston is very happy with the City Council...