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...When we [the members of this year's panel] decided not to send representatives to the CGE, it was because we felt that the panel was being used as a rubber stamp for administration policies," Vaughan said. He said he felt the large turnout for the meeting showed a broader base of support for the idea than either students or administration thought...
...among committee members is that it should expire. After dawdling for weeks, the Administration made an eleventh-hour stab at saving COLC, but the move was too weak and came much too late. In the past six months or so, COLC has got many firms and industries, including autos, rubber and aluminum, to sign agreements to exercise restraint in pricing in exchange for being freed from formal control. If COLC vanishes, those agreements will no longer be legally binding, and the companies can lift prices at will...
...says. "To be defensive, you need a physically tough center and toughness at other positions. We can't be tough with DiGregorio at guard and McAdoo at center. Instead, we outrun and outshoot our opponents." When that is not working, Ramsay outyells them. He is the champion head rubber and tantrum thrower in the N.B.A., collecting. an average of one technical foul every other game...
...dialogue reaches its dramatic heights in these catacombs. The electrician defiantly claims the tube for himself, as champion of the "clones"--the working class. His nemesis Acme blusters in riposte that without the tube, his visions of "rubber roads that lead nowhere, watches that never melt, and cheap art and compulsive education" will vanish...
Some grand juries are merely rubber stamps for prosecutors, who use the institution's wide-ranging powers of subpoena to harass suspects against whom they have little real evidence. But several members of the Watergate grand jury have acquired such expertness and shown such diligence in questioning witnesses that they have become true partners of Leon Jaworski and the other prosecutors. Once last spring the jury members were so intent on their deliberations that they stayed in session until midnight, when they discovered that the cleaning people had locked them in. It took ten minutes of shouting and pounding...