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...system should be built from within," an Independent office-seeker. Who asked not to be identified, said. "Taking people from outside hurts the morale of those within...
...royal flush for Fleet Street's sensation seeker, the London Daily Mirror. Princess Anne GETS OBSCENE PHONE CALLS, headlined the paper, disclosing that a devious dialer had uncovered Anne's top-secret number at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where she and Husband Mark Phillips live. Only two days after the number was changed, reported the Mirror, the off-color caller discovered the new royal connection, resumed his work, and at one point "started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case...
...past 18 months, federal planners have been wrestling with the problem of how to make the bankrupt Northeastern rail system once more efficient and profitable. In February, the U.S. Railway Association-a Government cure seeker created by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act-issued its preliminary plan for a Government-backed corporation that would consolidate about 15,000 miles of the old Penn Central and half a dozen other bankrupt lines. That plan was much criticized by politicians; New York Governor Hugh Carey called it "utterly unacceptable...
...plan is a clear victory for Gonçalves, who earlier this month was fighting for his political life when sentiment mounted in the Revolutionary Council to oust him after the collapse of the Cabinet. They were apparently persuaded by President Costa Gomes, the perennial seeker of compromise within the military movement, that it was not the hour for decision. Gonçalves' survival is also an ominous plus for his ideological mentor, Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal...
...professional employment, but instead should adjust to lead lives uncheapened by work they consider--beneath them. A liberal education can be a significant personal experience, Fisher says, but it cannot promise to give students "earthy vocational skills." What is more important than reconciling the disappointed college-graduate job-seeker to employment below his station is the "question of how we can take advantage of this great ability to educate people, how we can recognize this as a symptom of success," Fisher says. "The forces we're talking about are much greater than the recession. They're secular...