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...week's end the state senate agreed to a modest and largely meaningless proposal, allowing Mayor Lindsay to appoint four new members to the nine-man board of education-the four being in favor of decentralization. The board was then enjoined to produce a new plan for consideration by the legislature next year...
...shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon" investigating committee to determine, among other things, if a conspiracy was the cause of the chaos. "If anyone doesn't think this is a conspiracy," he said darkly, "I can't understand...
Dean Glimp will appoint a special nine-man committee next week to investigate the powers and procedures of the Administrative Board...
With the best team record in season play, Harvard has won the National Intercollegiate Nine-Man Championship for the sixth straight year and the seventh time in the last eight years. The Crimson also mauled its Ivy League competition this year and walked away with its seventh straight Ivy title...
...might well be constitutional. Taking the hint, New York State passed a statute in 1965 making it a crime to sell to anyone under 17 any material that presents a salacious view of "nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse." Similarly inspired, Dallas enacted a municipal ordinance empowering a nine-man board to label films as "not suitable for young persons"; movie theaters can be fined $200 for admitting anyone under 16 to such a film unless he is accompanied by a parent or spouse...