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...vainly, so far) to equalize Social Security benefits for men and women, has pushed to replace the school-lunch program with one providing three free meals daily for all children of the poor. She also heads the Select Committee on the House Beauty Shop. While most militant liberationists would scoff at such an assignment as both belittling and irrelevant, Martha Griffiths points out proudly that her shop is "the only thing in Washington that operates in the black...
...Force men argue that the Marines do nothing that their services could not do, given the proper equipment. On the other hand, Marine planners insist that the Corps is necessary to get the U.S. into hostile territory on short notice, using helicopters if not landing craft. Army men scoff at the idea. But few Army units maintain a Marine-like state of readiness, and none is stationed on ships around the world, ready to move anywhere, and fast. Nor can they be as easily deployed as the Marines. The 1834 Marine Corps law, which updates the 1798 act creating...
Along with Getrulo, Rick Tolbert and Scoff Beckett will be at saber. Tolbert finished the season with a 19-17 record, improving near the end of the season. Beckett won four bouts all year. and is the weakest. Crimson competitor in the tournament...
...power generation, for example -to repair damage already done to the ecological system. Commoner figures that not only would the cost be high, but that production itself would suffer in the process. Most economists, on the other hand, contend that total economic output would hardly be changed, and they scoff at the idea that growth itself is the real menace. They contend that the critics have picked the wrong villain, much as Britain's ax-wielding Luddite workers did when they deliberately destroyed new machinery during the early 19th century in the belief that machines swallowed jobs. "I cannot...
Although it is all very bippity-boppity-boo and cynics may scoff at those giant cartoon characters bobbing about on that enormous stage, the kids love it. So do most of their parents. In Chicago, the big people were right in there with the little people, singing the Mickey Mouse song, wearing Mickey Mouse hats and scrambling to shake hands with the Disney characters as they moved through the audience...