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...bureaucratic snafu disrupted the Quincy House Committee's plan to use the lawn last Saturday afternoon...
Recently, oil company executives were summoned to Washington to discuss the great pipeline snafu. Interior officials are blunt about the cause. As one told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Somebody cheated. It's a big mess." Beyond the 28 welds known to be defective, Interior officials are concerned that another 1,750 might fall short of federal standards for the Arctic, where winter temperatures can drop...
Greyhound officials contacted by the Crimson yesterday said that HSA was to blame for the snafu. "HSA made an error in their charter order. We just follow the order." Greyhound Regional Manager Charles W. Lohman said yesterday...
...radio station WIND, to complain that they are not getting unemployment-compensation checks to which they are entitled. Some tell stories of having cars repossessed or heat cut off; others plead for aid in getting emergency food. Says Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy: "It's the biggest snafu I've ever seen." He calls the IBES "the Bureau of Employment Insecurity...
With only five weeks remaining until South Viet Nam's October election, there was still no end in sight to the political snafu that has become at once a bitter joke in cynical Saigon and a source of deep embarrassment to Washington. So long as Thieu held the lines of governmental power and could steer the results in his favor, neither retired General Duong Van ("Big") Minh nor South Viet Nam's feisty Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky would consent to run as opposition candidates. That left Thieu the sole contender, knocking the underpinnings from the U.S. contention...