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...public pronouncements of the President, and it just doesn't fit." He talked often with Ray Thorn ton and James Mann, sometimes as they walked together to the House floor, and finally decided. "I felt that if we didn't impeach, we'd just ingrain and stamp in our highest office a stan dard of conduct that's just unacceptable...
...chief executive officer would be Lee Hills, 68, a North Dakota-born newspaper veteran who has been president of Knight since 1967. Hills aims to continue the editorial autonomy that has been traditional in both the Knight and the Ridder chains. "We don't think you can stamp newspapers out of cookie cutters," he says...
Meanwhile, the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta gave most IUDs a stamp of at least limited approval. A CDC study conducted last year found lUD-related mortality (roughly 20 per million users per year) no higher than that from birth control pills, which can cause blood-clotting problems in some women. For that matter, both IUDs and pills are less risky than pregnancy itself...
...panel asserted, the Government's food-stamp program to feed the needy has failed so badly that "no amount of revision can ever enable it to solve the problem." Inadequate assistance payments and poor administration are major troubles. Many poor people do not know that they can get the stamps; in fact, only 35.7% of the 37 million Americans eligible for the stamps now receive them. Many of the poor who do not get them have been reduced to buying pet food as a source of protein...
...decades one of the special delights of childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...