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Both Doherty and Bulger expressed grave concern over the existence of schools in Massachusetts which have been granted charters by the state but which have "met no standards of educational decency, and offer nothing more than a scrap of paper which they call 'degree.'" Doherty singled out Boston's Avon University as a "fraud and deceit," and maintained that the real intention of the bills was to alleviate the conditions caused by such institutions...
...have as their object or result the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the Common Market." Companies are required to declare by Aug. 1 the details of existing agreements that come within this sweeping language-or suffer penalties if they are discovered later. Any company that fails to scrap or revise an offending agreement can be fined...
...they collect (Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance to a feast...
Still, there are four more mounds to be excavated, and Dr. Negahban hopes that these will tell him what ancient people lived in the Goha Valley and buried their treasure there. "I won't leave a scrap," he says. "I won't budge until all the mounds are finished...
...before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused him of trying to rig the Democratic Convention for Kennedy...