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They waited for a reply while all sorts of rumors rose in Hartford and Murphy's office staff drooped in depression. Phones jangled. Strangers asked questions. Murphy kept mum. At 2:28 p.m. the call came through: "Humphrey stays in Detroit overnight." Scrap the airport greeting. Organize a daytime rite. At 3 p.m. came another call: "Humphrey arrives in Hartford at 11 a.m." Scrap the housewives. Goodbye, Connecticut General. A fuming Bailey reached Humphrey again and growled: "You're going to stand up 300 women and 2,000 insurance people because you want to sleep one more hour...
WITHOUT the fund power, the government knew its efforts would be confined to the Courts. Recent Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions have explicitly ordered school districts to scrap any systems that aren't working. The problem, as both the school districts and HEW realized, is that the decisions don't mean anything until they are formally enforced by federal courts. Court efforts have complemented the fund cut-offs for the last four years, but at an agonizingly slow rate...
...same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." Does this also apply to the same Professor Kittredge at the same old lectern at Harvard or to the same Professor Baker at the same old drama workshop at Yale in years past? When should a teacher be thrown on the scrap heap? Speaking as a teacher who is standing at the same old blackboard for the ninth year, and who has spent the last nine summers attending graduate school, when must I begin to apologize for wanting to continue to practice my profession with pride...
...possibly 18 dead, with perhaps a hundred wounded on both sides, and more than 2,000 arrested. It was a heavy cost for what began as a minor spat between the granaderos, or riot police, and prep-school students affiliated with the 90,000-student National University. As the scrap spilled into the streets, the students directed their anger toward the traditionally revered personage of Mexico's President, and seized the chance of disrupting the upcoming Olympics (see SPORT) as a historic opportunity for official embarrassment. For his part, dedicated, aloof President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz grimly vowed...
...this point, about all that seems certain is that the airlines will heed Hammarskjold's urging that they "do something positive about baggage." Travelers will second the motion. Because individual weighing-in of luggage consumes too much time at airport counters, IATA is of a mind to scrap the weight limit in favor of an allowable number of pieces. Originally developed before the days of the DC-3, the weigh-in became obsolete with the arrival of the jets, which have vast capacity. But the rules have stubbornly held on because they are profitable for the airlines. Last year...