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...failure of the Houston police to recognize that something strange had been going on in the Heights section of the city-and to do something about it. Waldrop charges that 13 boys disappeared from the same neighborhood around the same time in early 1971, but that the police were lax in searching for his sons...
Skylab's new difficulties caused a little soul-searching among NASA officials. Skylab Program Director William C. Schneider, for one, vigorously rejected the idea that the problems might have been caused by sloppy manufacturing or lax quality control resulting from NASA's recent economies. Chief Flight Controller Eugene Kranz agreed, but then added: "We'll never know until we get the darn things down and look at them." There was one performance that no one could fault: a spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only...
Summer School students are particularly lax, a member of the student security guard said yesterday. He noted that those from less urban environments are probably less likely to take security precautions, and he suggested that "they're not locking doors as much as they should...
...dispute that benefits should be paid to the families of miners who were disabled because the companies-and the Government-until recently were lax about dust-control standards in the mines. But Donald Davis, an official at national Social Security headquarters, charges that he has been pressured by superiors into approving benefits for "frauds." These range from twice-married widows collecting two separate benefit checks to "black-lung-disabled" healthy young men who worked in the mines only briefly. Prodded by Davis, the General Accounting Office issued a report citing abuses, though its criticism was milder than Davis...
...prime mover in the play is the Duke, who after many years of lax rule turns over the reins to his deputy Angelo. But those who equate the Duke with the Christian God are surely in error--unless God is scheming, deceitful, mendacious, irresponsible, fallible, and not without a streak of cruelty. The role is a flawed attempt at the kind of semi-divine authority-figure that Shakespeare would eventually limn so wonderfully as Prospero in The Tempest...