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With such allies at her side, Mrs. Hicks has been able to block almost every serious effort that has been made to improve the ghetto schools and, confronted by a recent state law specifically indicating financial penalties for segregated systems, she has been able to stall the wheels with sufficient success to prevent any meaningful improvement and not lose a penny of state aid for Boston's budget...
...high-strung, rankish personality that sometimes loses races. Favored at 17-10 odds in the Kentucky Derby, he was already sweating before the start, folded in the stretch, and wound up third. To keep him calm in the stable, Trainer Frank Whiteley has now put a radio in his stall; Whiteley also dips the colt's protective leg bandages in a peppery solution to stop him from chewing on them. And to ease pre-race jitters, Damascus is usually the last to enter the track, parades to the post in the soothing company of an old lead pony called...
...their job. Statistics show that the best teams rarely can run more than 14 plays in succession without a mistake, and poorer teams less. So Harvard is willing to give up to three first downs per drive and wait for the error--a fumble, interception, big loss--which will stall the opposition short of the end zone...
CNCV leaders had charged Thursday that the city was deliberately slowing down judicial procedures in order to stall the resolution off the ballot. But Loeser said last night that Trodden's action "showed a lot more cooperative attitude on the part of the City...
...last July's Moscow air show, it displayed two new swing-wing combat planes, including one that had unquestionably profited from the tribulations of the F-lll. The Russians' Mikoyan-designed fighter has its air ducts placed far forward on the fuselage, apparently thus avoiding engine-stall caused by rearward ducts on the F-lll. Nevertheless, the F-lll is still the hottest plane, packing the most advanced radar and missile systems in the skies today, giving the nation a swinging aerial edge...