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...Scylla and Charybdis situation," says Dr. Dennis Miller, director of pediatric hematology for the C.B.F. "The transfusions enable a patient to survive, but they endanger him as well...
...ALABAMA. To such Alabama place names as Arab, Boaz, Opp and Eufaula can be added, for this election, Scylla and Charybdis. If the White House does not support the campaign of former Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, 51, it loses an opportunity to gain another Republican seat. If, on the other hand, it supports Blount successfully against patriarchal 26-year Senate Veteran John J. Sparkman, 72, then Liberal Democrat William Proxmire will likely succeed Sparkman as Senate Banking Committee chairman. "Who the hell wants Proxmire?" is a common business view. The White House appears to have opted for keeping John...
...twin tests of "reasonableness" and "non-discrimination" have become, after numerous CAB and court rulings, the Scylla and Charybdis between which any proposed fare must chart a course in order to gain approval. Non-discrimination is, of course, the test that the court and the Examiner claim Youth Fare does not pass. But the question of "reasonableness" is also worth looking at, if only to dispel the misconceptions of those who resented Youth Fare...
Like wandering Odysseus, the Harvard hockey team has escaped the clutches of the Cyclopes in Maine and the Laestrygonians in New Hampshire; miraculously skirted disaster between the Scylla and Charibdis of upstate New ork; and finally returned home -- only to find a cocky band of pretenders, the icemen from Providence, waiting in Watson Rink to pose still another big test tonight...
That mainstream, in Javits' view, weaves between the Scylla of the right, with "those who ignore international realities and look back with nostalgia to the economic jungle of the 19th century," and to the left, the Charybdis of "increasing control over the nation's economic and social life." He feels it is the responsibility of Republican liberals to chart a mid-channel course, thus offering the voter a choice "between a Democratic Party which instinctively leans on the Government to solve any problem, and a Republican Party which instinctively seeks ways to bring the resources of the business community into...