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...said that the flaw was discovered last Wednesday when the first upperclass ID cards were made. The problem came to light when a student tried to buy food at Lehman Hall and his card failed to make an imprint on the charge slip. Similar situations were reported by a number of other students that day, Granfield said...
...step, Tisch's concerns were drawing him closer to Paley. The former chairman had his own grievances against Wyman (see box). As CBS-TV's fortunes declined, Paley fumed at the fact that Wyman never consulted him. Said a CBS board source: "He believes he can still put his imprint on programming...
Some names have a special kind of imprint. The famous Miss Hogg, whose father cruelly named her Ima, had good reason to grow up scowling, but maybe she would have even if she had been named something sweet, like Charlotte. Anyone named James Oliver Buswell IV carries his parents' announcement of a certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela...
...alikes who will perform during Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach towels, Liberty dry-roasted peanuts, Liberty tobacco. Moreover, Adams probably could not have conceived how practically everyone in a country of 240 million might be very nearly sated with a celebration that is yet to occur...
Emerging from fundamental precepts of the Constitution, Supreme Court rulings are fashioned to guide justice throughout the country. But their imprint is felt most immediately on a smaller scale among the people whose controversies the court has ruled upon. People in Hanford understand the larger principle the court recently reaffirmed--that blacks may not be systematically excluded from grand juries--but most in town are horrified that the result may be the release of a man they believe is a fearsome killer...