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...EDWARD WEEKS, 63, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, who apparently aroused Rafferty's ire by printing Lyons' criticisms of journalism schools...
...staid Matron of 42nd St. has, in the past, raised our ire when she joshes at objections to the NDEA affidavit or confuses Ivy League admissions policy or attempts to knife our Mac. On this occasion we join with all of Cambridge (and Cantabrigians living in Washington) to hail...
...Nikita Khrushchev last week rumbled his new threats against the Western presence in Berlin, the reasons for his ire were shuffling through the long lines at West Berlin's big, drab Marienfelde clearing center for refugees. They were the Grenzgänger, the border-hopping escapees from East Germany who flee to the West by the hundreds each week, making a mockery of Communist claims of providing a better life, and sapping the strength of their limping, labor-short country. Since 1945, some 4,000,000 East Germans-almost one-fourth of East Germany's entire present population...
...Tall. Buntin's minicab, and others like it, are pitted against 6,600 time-tested dinosaurs of the London taxi world. What arouses the ire of the traditional cabbies is that minicabs are operating without taxi licenses and thus can ignore the stringent regulations that made a London cab 1) expensive to build and 2) one of the world's ugliest but most comfortable vehicles. Some of the regulations, as laid down in the ancient Metropolitan Carriage Act of 1869: each cab must be 14 ft. 11 7/16 in. long, big enough to seat five persons comfortably, high...
Four character witnesses, including Harold Taylor, former President of Sarah Lawrence College, and Helen Parkhurst, founder of the Dalton School, testified to Seeger's reputation for loyalty. Taylor drew the ire of the prosecutor when he admitted he had known that some persons had considered Seeger a Communist but still felt the singer had an "excellent" reputation for loyalty...