Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then let Mrs. F. take a "Bug" to the Volkswagen agency for service. What a difference. At the risk of sounding like a shill for VW, I have made the comparison. Never have I received anything but prompt, courteous and competent service at the dealers. The work is often covered by the warranty, and the bills are reasonable...
...ever regretted becoming an American citizen? "No." Prompt and positive. He left England in 1939 because, he said, "English cultural life was a family life. Well "-and there went the smile again-" I love my family very dearly, but I don't want to live with them." As for New York: "at times it's absolutely dreadful, but one has many good friends ??????? forward with the slight grin of the experienced storyteller-" there's a Jewish delicatessen on Second Avenue where I used to get kippers. I ate them as a boy, and there aren't many places...
...Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York State's Insurance Department has just proposed a new "no-fault" auto-insurance plan. The idea has already aroused the interest of authorities in many other states, some of whom have tried but failed to institute less comprehensive systems. The plan would provide prompt payment by sweeping away the legal need to fix the blame in cases of bodily injury. Instead, an accident victim could collect medical costs and compensation for lost income for himself and his passengers from his own insurance company. By minimizing legal, investigative and administrative expenses and other costs, this...
This diversionary tactic comes at a time when the courts have run out of patience with Southern resistance and are setting deadlines for prompt desegregation. Enlightened leaders in the Carolinas have adjusted realistically to the inevitable and have reasoned responsibly with segregationists in their states. But Governors in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida are scoring easy and dangerous political points by stirring up all of the anti-integration forces. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox even told schoolchildren not to get on buses that would take them to integrated schools and that "somebody ought...
...painless. Leaving today "is a simple matter," says Midge Turk, college editor of Glamour magazine and an Immaculate Heart sister until 1966. ''A nun writes to the Pope. says please-give-me-a-dispensation-because-I-can-no-longer-function-in-this-life, and she almost automatically gets a prompt notification of release from her vows." But there is the fashion syndrome. One former nun recalls the shock of recognition when she first replaced her habit with a mod dress "and discovered my legs hanging out down there...