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...more months of arduous debate, the Faculty established a new program of non-DEPARTMENTAL Education at Rindge Tech. Astonished at the near-unanimous vote, Dean Ford decides that the conflict between the college and the departments has been resolved "fairly conclusively." Members of the Doty Committee resign in a huff and go as Peace Corps advisors to Peru, "where our ideas on General Education will be appreciated...
...given at least two accounts of the shooting, at one point denied to police that Fein had ever admitted shooting Ruby. But Gloria seemed rattled only when Kleinman, interested in how much she charged for her services, asked: "Your price was not $5?" Replied Gloria in a perfumed huff: "I should...
...Coffin for Dimitrios, sometimes with the dry, fruity tang of last year's The Light of Day (bubblingly filmed by Jules Dassin as Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while too much of the onscreen talk comes out with a kind of freshly translated stiffness, as though the characters were speaking directly in English subtitles...
...lived happily ever after. Only it doesn't end like that for the bull-necked actor who played the butcher in Marty, Ernest Borgnine, 47. Only 38 days after he wed his third wife, Musicomedienne Ethel Merman, 55, Ethel left his bed and board and headed in a huff for the Beverly Crest Hotel. As his sidekick used to say, after he'd closed the shop for the day, "I dunno, Marty, whaddayuh doin' tonight...
...U.A.W. may well concentrate its attack on General Motors and its tenacious negotiator Louis Seaton, because G.M. has the highest profit margin. Both sides will huff and puff down to the end, orating for their grandstands at the start, then making a hurry-up effort to talk to each other. One auto company vice president observes that "it always comes down to the last week, when G.M. makes another, more liberal offer." There could very well be a strike of sorts in September, but it would probably be settled quickly. Reason: 1964 is an election year, the first one since...