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...general election two years ago switched to the opposition Tories, who picked up two of the seats. The government now commands only 316 votes in the 635-seat House-312 Labor M.P.s and four consistent supporters-and has lost its working majority. Exulted Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher: "Dry rot has set into the government house, and you know just how quickly dry rot runs through a whole building...
Briarcliff College President Josiah Bunting, 36, a novelist and ex-Army major, suggested that his purpose is "to make the students tolerant and sensitive, to teach them that their education should not interfere with their learning and to help them see when people are talking rot." John Jay Iselin, 42, president of Manhattan's Educational Broadcasting Corp., saw as his role "to select pertinent information and to put it out in a way that can be understood" by expert and layman alike...
...families of the jailed workers. Former Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski addressed an open letter to the government, protesting police brutality against the workers. "It proves," he declared, "that some people have ceased to pursue the goals of serving the people and have become a gangrene transmitting the rot to other parts of public life." In an interview broadcast on West German TV, Andrzejewski declared that Communism has been "imposed on subjugated nations that are completely dominated by the influence of the Russian empire...
Holtz, who is part coach, part faith healer and part song-writer, tried to reverse the dry rot afflicting the slumping Jets under Charlie Winner by dealing away highly-touted cornerback Roscoe Word and linebacker Godwin Turk and benching Alcorn A&M graduate Rich Sowells in favor of Schaefer Suggs, who was burned for a 79-yd. scoring hook-up between Bert Jones and Roger Carr on Sunday...
...served two tours of duty in Vietnam! I gave America my all and the leaders of this government threw me and the others away to rot in their V.A. hospitals. What's happening in Vietnam is a crime against humanity, and I just want the American people to know that we have come all the way across this country to let the American people themselves see the men who fought their war and come to oppose it. If you can't believe the veteran who fought the war and was wounded in the war, who can you believe...