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...issue hanging over Gorski's head right now is the prospect of a new police contract. Although the old contract has expired, spokesmen for the University and Patrolmen's Association head Lawrence Letteri say negotiations are completely stalemated. Letteri originally demanded the addition of 12 patrolmen to the 49-member force, citing a 17 per cent increase in crime at Harvard over the last two years. Gorski, who is not in the union, acknowledges a rise in property crimes, but points to a decrease in crimes against person and adamantly opposes any jump in the size of the force...
While the phantom boycott has not slowed the loading of the initial 10 million tons of American grain that the Russians ordered in July, it has helped to keep the emotionally charged issue of Soviet sales and rising food prices high up in the public consciousness. AFL-CIO spokesmen claim that their mail is running 20 to 1 in favor of the unions' rebellion...
...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 of "nuisance calls" and denied that Anne herself had actually heard the prankster, police confirmed that there had indeed been some "deep breathing" on the line. Scotland Yard launched an investigation, and the Department of Industry set a trap for the mysterious caller...
Some of the country's most conspicuous problems, in fact, stem not from worsening conditions but from an increased awareness of them. Injustices that earlier generations once silently accepted now have articulate spokesmen decrying them. Yet oddly enough these same people who work so hard for change take so little just satisfaction in the gains that have been made that they can hardly be called happy warriors. They even exaggerate their own pessimism out of a fear that public willingness to overcome obstacles would otherwise slacken. The result is that few times will pass into history like ours, having...
Doubtful Interest. Who was putting up the cash? For the time being, Frost would say only that he represented an "international consortium of broadcasting organizations." Spokesmen for all three U.S. networks expressed doubt that they would be interested in Frost's finished product; yet there were no Sherman-like statements that absolutely ruled out the possibility. One reason the networks are unlikely to buy is that they have responsibility for the programs they air. To keep control, they almost never run news shows not produced by their own staffers...