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...Yale law students recently decided to take a poke at the gullibility and irresponsibility of the national press...
...State of the Union pledge that "every child must have the best education our nation can provide." Even more radically, the proposal skirts the divisive aid-to-parochial-schools issue by allowing what Washington calls "Cardinal Spellman's camel"-that is Roman Catholic hunger for aid-to poke its head under the tent. School districts receiving federal money would buy textbooks and scientific equipment for underprivileged children in public and parochial schools alike, unless this is specifically banned by state law. As many as 90% of the nation's school districts might benefit, although Title...
...competitive fares and schedules and newer equipment (P.S.A.'s jets will not be delivered until next spring), Pacific Southwest intends to depend even more on its friendly and informal approach. Its stewardesses distribute airplane coloring books and "first flight" certificates to children, pass out holiday greeting cards that poke gentle fun at passengers. P.S.A.'s reservation clerks are surrounded by signs that say: "Pleasant Service A-lways." The line even sponsors contests, sometimes awarding the free use of a whole Electra as a prize. And when its president was bumped from a fully booked flight by fare-paying...
...Andreas was even talked about as a successor to his father, 76. Opposition conservatives and his father's own center supporters finally decided to give Andreas his comeuppance -and, indirectly, take a poke at the Premier too. George, wrote one newspaper, "must sacrifice his son." They planted stories alleging that Andreas had a "Trotskyite" past and at the same time accused him of being more American than Greek. Then they made the relatively minor but damaging charge that Andreas had let a $60,000 town-planning contract without competitive bids to a friend. While stoutly denying the accusation, Andreas...
...Philadelphia Bulletin detected a new earnestness of rhetoric in the campaigns last week: "Until Election Day, Voltaire's famous remark is amended to read, T will defend to the death your right to say what you have just said, but if you say it again, I'll poke you one in the kisser...