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...with the five struck airlines for a 30-day period, after which the President could set up a mediation board and keep workers on the job for up to 150 days more. Cautioned by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Meany that they should not take action that they "would regret for the rest of their lives," and placed in the unenviable position of offending organized labor in an election year, balky House Commerce Committee members haggled for days last week before finally approving by a 17-to-13 vote a bill virtually identical with the Senate...
...that married couples make better grades. He said the chances are that I might not be able to finish college, but then he said that I could go back and take courses later." Having reached an affirmative consensus, the Johnsons announced the engagement Christmas Eve. Lyndon Johnson, who must regret having no sons of his own, told friends: "I really like that boy." Soon he was calling...
...Negro, I regret that the term "black power" [July 22] has been introduced into the civil rights movement, because it has a detrimental and misleading connotation. The Negro wants power only in the sense of being represented, heard and accepted. Because of his lack of power, he has been stripped of human dignity. Even steel wears out: many Negroes are tired of being subservient. I have been taught to turn the other cheek, and I definitely believe in this philosophy. However, many Negroes are adhering to the natural instinct of man to retaliate before being mutilated...
When Scandinavia-loving students at Wisconsin's Carroll College return to class this fall, they need not regret that their school has no classes in Norwegian. All they have to do is transfer temporarily to Luther College in Iowa, which has an excellent program in the language, pay not a penny more intuition-and get full credit at Carroll for work done. This free transfer of students will be the most immediately visible result of the newly formed Central States College Association-an educational combine of twelve Midwestern colleges that have agreed to pool their resources by coordinating classes...
...resigned in protest from the parish council, hinting that the reason the company was allowed to "ride roughshod" was because it had bought off some of his fellow citizens. Beresford Worswick, a crusty fugitive from London, summoned the Royal Fine Art Commission to inspect the scene. The commission expressed regret that "a film company should have made alterations to an exceptional English village, instead of adopting the more acceptable practice of building a film set to represent an English village...