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Suddenly, letters and telegrams poured in from all over the country, beseeching the town fathers to retain the storied names. The officially incorporated United States Monopoly Association, whose members conduct annual matches in white tie and tails, further insisted that Baltic and Mediterranean ought to sport "the appropriate purple street signs"; the association seriously threatened to bring the matter to the attention of the Department of the Interior's board on historic sites and monuments...
...long as possible. If he puts a seriously ill patient into a general hospital, the physician almost invariably loses all contact with him-and all income from the case. Of the country's 6,800 general hospitals, only about 50 allow a G.P. to obtain staff privileges and retain charge of his patients...
...Davis, marked an innovation in the genre. As Pollack says, "It was a black and white film before black and white films were popular, a kind of funky morality play, a bit larger than life and full of a strange kind of banter." Like Jeremiah Johnson, however it did retain elements of the traditional Western...
...Coalition to Retain Air Discount Fares (CRADF) began operations in Washington D.C. Monday in an effort to counter the threatened elimination of all domestic youth and other discount fares...
...Competing bids for a station's license, for example, would be entertained only after the Federal Communications Commission had revoked or failed to renew it. Out would go the current FCC criteria stipulating the proportion of generally unprofitable news and public-service broadcasting a station must carry to retain its license; they would be replaced by two vaguely worded conditions requiring broadcasters to be "attuned" to community needs and to air "conflicting views on issues of public importance...