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...operations, and we are no more inferior than quite a few I could mention. If fairness is your doctrine, you might mention the long hours put in by our executives; the patient humor and heroic efforts of pur ticket agents, operations and reservations staffs who have lived through this six-month nightmare-that is the real story...
...Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, refused to make the ritual pledge that the U.S. will maintain the official price of gold at $35 per ounce. "I want to keep every option open," he said. Next day, the free market price of gold jumped in London to a six-month high of $41.82, and Nixon Press Aide Ron Ziegler tried to quiet the uncertainty by declaring: "We do not anticipate any change in the price of gold...
...Levy stiff penalties on mine operators in violation of the safety provisions, up to and including a fine of $5,000 and a six-month jail sentence...
...slit its wrists now would be like the parents of a six-month old infant giving the child away because, instead of walking, it could only crawl...
...teen-ager was turning on to the hippie way of life. In his freshman year at San Francisco State College, he moved out of the family home for a pad in the Hashbury, where he experimented with marijuana, peyote, LSD, and Romilar. In 1965, Pike was granted a six-month sabbatical to study theology and church history at Cambridge. He invited his son to accompany him, in hopes of helping him kick the drug habit. Jim accepted, but he took along, as the bishop discovered later, a supply of marijuana and the addresses of some London contacts...