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With the anticipated increase in the number of cars, any but large and accessible facilities would be only only temporary and inadequate stopgaps. Even if the city allows overnight parking in some areas, the streets around the University, among the narrowest in the city, cannot safely hold their present load, much less any increase...
...open stretch of Massachusetts Bay is about 45 miles of tricky, often impossible water. The English Channel at its narrowest is 20 miles wide, though more swimmers often cover 25 miles when caught in the strong currents...
...President said: "It is essential for the security of the U.S. and the rest of the free world that the U.S. take the leadership in promoting the achievement of high levels of trade." Only because of the outspoken White House advocacy did the 84th Congress, reluctantly and by the narrowest of margins, pass a liberalized foreign-trade bill this year...
...line clique that controlled the U.A.W.'s president, R. J. Thomas. Day and night, hundreds of delegates argued and battled over the Communist issue; bloody brawls between the factions broke out on the boardwalk. When the vote came at last, the Communists and their followers lost; by the narrowest of margins, Walter Reuther beat R. J. Thomas for president of the U.A.W...
...office." The Bailey case is a precarious precedent for the Justice Department, however. One of the three Circuit Court judges, in dissent, held that a loyalty dismissal is a punitive action and entitles the accused to full judicial safeguards. And the supreme Court affirmed the Bailey decision by the narrowest possible margin, a 4 to 4 tie. While none of the high tribunal's opinions were officially announced, several of the justices have since gone out of their way to assail the Bailey case verdict. Justice Black has written that the case "demonstrates how the entire loyalty program grossly deprives...