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...article until after the Spanish election, in which the Communists won only just over 9% of the vote, presumably because they feared their attack might have helped Carrillo and his colleagues at the polls had it come earlier. Last week the volume of Communism's new intramural scrap increased a notch when Carrillo replied to the Soviet assault. Said he jauntily at a Madrid press conference: "I didn't expect an excommunication decree from the Holy Office." Soon, he cracked, he would publish the New Times article in Spain, along with "clarifying notes." That, he added...
...what was the largest protest action by Harvard undergraduates in six months, nearly 160 Dunster and Mather House students assembled out on Cowperthwaite Street last Friday and marched to Leverett House dining hall to demonstrate in support of their demands that Dean Fox scrap his breakfast plan or at least that either Dunster or Mather serve hot breakfast next year under the new breakfast plan...
...Genuine Scrap. Josiah Bounderby (Timothy West) is the apostle of the creed, the poor boy who made good, a man of red-faced bluster and aggressive self-pity. "I'm a bit of dirty riffraff," he brags, "a genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts...
England entered World War I, according to the Chancellor of Germany, "just for a scrap of paper."* In Black and White in Color, a dusty outpost in French West Africa also enters the war for a scrap of paper-a yellowed newspaper from home, which reveals that the conflict has been raging in Europe for six months...
...this point the lobbyists are zeroing in on the particular parts of the plan that they will try hardest to change. Oilmen will complain that the program is one-sided, stressing conservation, which they applaud, but neglecting production. Their aim is to persuade Congress to scrap Carter's proposed taxes on crude oil and raise costs to consumers by letting prices rise instead. Only in that way, they argue, can they get the money needed to finance new exploration. There is some talk in the industry of having the oilmen themselves propose a "windfall" tax on any profits they...