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"We expect a case like that every now and then," Whitla said. "After all, if PRL was right on the nose every time, there wouldn't be any sense in grading people after they get here , now would there?"
British business has often classed its companies more by the social status of the men at the top than by size, profits or prospects. Eton and the Guards are faultless qualifications, and so is a baronetcy or hereditary peerage. Some Britons believe that directors constitute a gigantic Old Boy network...
At no time did the President make any threats about what he would do if the negotiations failed. He shrewdly left that up to the negotiators' imagination, and the strategy worked. The unions were afraid that Johnson would ask Congress for a compulsory arbitration act, as Kennedy did last...
He emphasized that the President had promised only to review the complaints, not to grant any outright concessions. Secretary of the Treasury Dillon will meet in the near future with representatives of the railroads to discuss the grievances, which center around depreciation allowances permitted on tunnels and grading.
Moving in on Nus's responsibilities, Mrs. Gilderbloom and her supporters voted to toss out a faculty-designed change in the grading system, and began meddling in classrooms. One teacher was told to stop class discussion of Communism; another was reprimanded for mentioning menstruation in a mixed physiology class...