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...guard force was reduced from 14 to four. Yet when Principal Herbert Tabor chained fire doors to keep out intruders, he was fined $100 for violating Detroit's fire laws. Now the fire doors are unlocked, and intruders, some armed with knives or revolvers, find it easier to roam the building, selling drugs, shaking down students for money or snatching teachers' purses...
...more often, however, it is the students themselves who are the victims. School officials blame most of these incidents on intruders, often dropouts who return to prey on their former schoolmates. They lie in wait in school toilets to shake down students for their lunch money, roam the halls and playgrounds extorting and terrorizing...
...Vienna though, Weller once again began to feel the pull of the press and he fell into the circle of foreign correspondents who spent their nights in the city's cafes. It wasn't long before Weller gave up the stage and began to roam the Balkans as a freelance writer...
...whose department Nixon has largely bypassed in the making of foreign policy. For the President, Kissinger has been a combination of professor-in-residence, secret agent, ultimate advance man and philosopher-prince. In an important sense, he is Nixon's creation, using the power base of the presidency to roam the world and speak for Nixon, to set the stage for summits, to negotiate war and peace. There have been similar relationships before, but none exactly the same: Richelieu and Louis XIII, Metternich and Hapsburg Emperor Francis I, Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson, Harry Hopkins and F.D.R...
...succession is plainly and sadly inadequate to cope with the stresses of future shock, political, social and economic (see box). In many ways, Spain is belatedly catching up with its neighbors. Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach. Some working-class families, for the first time have telephones, refrigerators and TVs, and every sizable city has a traffic jam. Spaniards, in short, are changing far more quickly and easily than their institutions, which are showing increasing strains. Items...