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...short, it was almost the worst possible moment for the Administration to be plunged into internal turmoil. However able Shultz may prove to be, he will at best need time to brief himself on the specifics of foreign problems and straighten out the tangled lines of authority in policymaking. It may take until mid-July before his nomination is confirmed by the Senate. Haig has said that he will stay on until then, but he will obviously have no clout. And events may not wait for the transition, as the Israeli bombs and shells falling on West Beirut...
With two Hefners running Playboy, there was no more room for Derick J. Daniels, 53, who resigned as president. Daniels, a former vice president of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, was brought into the company in 1976 to straighten out its ragged management structure, a job at which most critics say he succeeded. He leaves with severance...
Although Epps said Harvard has occasionally helped straighten out the financial messes of students groups in the past, the new effort represents a more comprehensive attempt at helping all campus groups, not just those in dire need...
...decades, the standard way to straighten out a child's curved spine was with a bulky back brace. Worn for up to eight years, it was not a pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis. For those with severe curves, surgery often was required. It too had its unpleasant consequences, sometimes including nine months' confinement in a hip-to-chin plaster body cast...
...vintage piece--" Saturnine, Tweedy Gabe Hammerschlag, head of N.Y.P.D.'s Confidence Detail, struck a match on his desk top and, sucking the flame into the bowl of his pipe, eyed me meditatively. Gabe and I had known each other ever since 1953, when I had helped him straighten out a rather nasty copyright mess among the Kachins of Northern Burma, and I knew that when Hammerschlag sucked flame meditatively into his bowl the unexpected could be expected...