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...meeting primarily to organize committees to work on the environmental teach-in April 22 and to plan other ecology projects," said Rick Mayer, a third-year student at the Graduate School of Design and president of the coalition. "We tried to stress at the meeting that ecology should not pre-empt other issues, that ecology is related to other issues like poverty and housing," he added...
Despite Harry Reasoner's discontent with the unbroken, hour-long documentary, the format is hardly in danger of falling into disuse. On one night alone next week ABC will pre-empt its entire schedule, including Peyton Place and Big Valley, for a compote of four documentaries. The network will open its evening with No. 5 in Jacques Yves Cousteau's series of hymns to the sea. To Love a Child, a study of adoption's triumphs and travails, will follow. Kitty Le Champion will show the skier involved in snowless pursuits. As it happens, the last...
Although the committee will be considering some of the same issues SFAC is investigating, it "will not in any way pre-empt SFAC," Glimp said. "We will be waiting for them to lob some specific suggestions for us to work...
...fees and overhead that it takes an estimated $2.20 in premiums and taxes to get $1 to an accident victim. (Blue Cross delivers $1 in benefits for $1.07.) Nor is inefficiency the only drawback of the ponderous system. Although only 5% of auto cases ever reach trial, they still pre-empt about 65% of the nation's civil-court calendars. It now takes 2½ years to get a civil case tried in most cities...
...about expansion. Their borrowing served partly to pay off old loans and replenish coffers depleted by the 1966 money squeeze and the spring speedup in corporate tax collections; most of all, it reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would pre-empt borrowable funds. Auto sales dropped to about 8,400,000, 7% below their 1966 level. "Mystified businessmen are still waiting for the frantic days that they were told lay ahead," complains Research Director Albert Sommers of the National Industrial Conference Board...