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...master carpenter, Heath is a rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath's peculiar accent behind his back...
...screens applicants to discover addicts before they are hired. Manhattan-based Con Edison, for example, turned away 44 addicted job seekers in 1968 and 78 last year. Companies have recently begun demanding that applicants submit to a special urine analysis; in the case of users, the test turns up traces of barbiturates, amphetamines and morphine, which the body metabolizes out of heroin. The tests have led to a burgeoning business for private laboratories; some do several hundred urinalyses a day, at $4.50 each. Even these tests are not foolproof. If a specimen shows a hint of quinine, which is often...
...rather than the original resolution. Here is the opening of the faculty resolution: "Each instructor shall allow students the option. . . ." The second sentence concludes: "if any student so requests by May 19, that student shall be graded by the instructor on a pass-fail basis." There is no trace of this "shall" in the second document, where it has been reduced...
With only a trace of opposition, the Faculty yesterday passed the Kilson resolution urging the Corporation to support Campaign GM in the upcoming shareholders proxy fight...
...label of Minimal Art has latched onto Stella's work. He makes enormous paintings-with surfaces as smooth as a car. Flat color without a shadow is neatly placed within ruled or compassed lines so that no trace of the artist's hand remains. He could command a computer to execute it. But a startling combination of geometrical forms makes his pictures look different from the other Minimal Artists...