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...California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, noting that stud fees often rise dramatically with the success of previous offspring in important races, asked the Cost of Living Council to make an exception in its case. The COLC said neigh. The ruling: stud fees are levied for services rendered, and therefore must remain frozen at mid-August magnitude...
This may mean that the lawyer must support the group even when he thinks it has made an ??????? decision. As Newman explained, "It might not be what the community needs, but it's what it thinks it needs. Sometimes lawyers come in and want to change the neigh-both sell in their own social image." He calls this attitude "condescending as hell...
...curriculum reform. He says that this function is mediation, not advocacy. He is a diplomatic historian, cautious in his sentences, cradling a thin-stemmed pipe several seconds before answering any question. Small tie-knot, two-button grey suit and flat-top haircut: unobtrusive except that he seems to neigh when he smiles...
Then, says Mailer, there would be delegated "some real power to the neigh borhoods." This would include "power with their local boards of education, power to decide about the style and quality and number of the police force they want and are willing to pay for, power over the Department of Sanitation, power over their parks." There could be "vest-pocket campuses" built by students in abandoned buildings, restoring a sense of personal involvement that is lost in the large university campuses. Early in his campaign, blithely exaggerating to dramatize his point, Mailer proclaimed: "We'll have compulsory free...
...opposition, the Soviets enlisted support for the doctrine from its first victims. Shortly before leaving for Moscow, Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who in April replaced Alexander Dubcek, declared that "anti-Communist and anti-Soviet insti gations" had justified the intervention of Czechoslovakia's Warsaw Pact neigh bors. In Moscow, Husak, accompanied by new hard-line officials who only the week before had accomplished a purge of most of the prominent liberals on the Czechoslovak Central Committee, pleaded with the Italians and other foreign Communists not to discuss the Czechoslovakia issue in the conference...