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...which consisted of replies to questions-sometimes invented by the editor-on how tall Gladstone was (5 ft. 9 in.), or how many M.P.s had glass eyes (three). A touch of Answers lingered in all his newspapers. Northcliffe's curiosity was boundless, his attention span brief, his commitments transient. But, says Ferris, he knew "exactly what to do about telephones, cars, Boers and the disgraceful export of British horses to make sausages for the Belgians...
...northern city has been more polarized by the busing issue than Pontiac, Mich. (pop. 85,000), a transient auto assembly-line town 25 miles northwest of Detroit. Last May, the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a district court order calling for the busing of 9,000 of the 24,000 students to achieve racial balance in the city's predominantly white (68%) school system. When the schools opened in September, six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested for fire-bombing Pontiac school buses; militant white mothers chained themselves to buses and enrolled their children in impromptu neighborhood...
...chief delegate only to the current U.N. General Assembly, Chiao will be the transient member of Peking's team; even before the assembly session ends next month, he may return to Peking, where, among other things, he has been handling the prickly talks on the Sino-Soviet border dispute. China's permanent U.N. representative will be courtly Ambassador Huang Hua, the only member of the delegation with prior professional service in North America; since April he has been China's ambassador to Canada, a post that he will resign when he takes up his duties...
Some other medical insurance plans pay all or part of the costs. A number of organizations also help out. While regular hospitals usually want to be paid in advance, especially if the woman is a transient, some nonprofit clinics attempt to set terms according to need. In Seattle, the Y.W.C.A. university chapter provides living quarters and counseling for women undergoing abortions, and students at the University of Maine have set up an abortion-loan fund that subsidizes coeds' trips to New York...
...Howl is generally thought to have started the literary side of the movement, sang of devastated minds, mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Gregory Corso raged against authority, lamented the thinning of his wild hair and questioned the institution of marriage. Jack Kerouac's On the Road bubbled about the transient life. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was charming about overpopulation, and obsession with the tyranny of drugs, governments and unspecified malevolence could be found in the work of even a marginal Beat like William S. Burroughs...