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...take kindly to the prospect of having a bunch of women tell them how to run their business. Crusade Coordinator Moore and a co-worker camped at police headquarters for 48 hours, explaining in plain language at every roll call that they were there to help, not hinder. They proved their point by using the News to lobby for -and help get-raises for patrolmen. As the women rode along in squad cars for full eight-hour shifts, their determination helped win over the cops...
...reduced athletic emphasis of Ivy schools -- even one so much in the swim as Yale -- is bound to hinder Schollander in his quest for future Olympic medals. At the University's of Southern California, for example, they spend four hours a day in the pool...
...this week apparently at the instigation of provincial leaders want to increase factory and farm outputs and are evidently annoyed about a resolution to extend Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution into "the minds, the factories, and the countryside." The provincial leaders feel, justifiably, that this will hinder production and threaten their prestige...
...inch; their tops are rounded like the letter B so that blood can continue to circulate through the two arches and the sutured tissue will not be squeezed to death. Unlike silk or catgut sutures, which can harbor infection, the stainless steel staples are virtually nonreactive and do not hinder healing...
...what kind of actress she would be. Her father advised her to go all out for musical comedy: "You can always go into serious theater later . . . after all, Edith Evans didn't start till she was 30." He may have been thinking that her gangling height might hinder her as a serious actress; Vanessa is 5 ft. 101 in., taller than many leading men. It was something she worried about too. Once, recalls Lady Redgrave, Vanessa telephoned her in the country: "She was sobbing great floods. Finally she explained. 'I'm looking in your mirror...