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Denial. Several passengers numbed their terror with trivial distractions. After helping free a fellow passenger from the wreckage, Thomas Rothenberg, a warehouse supervisor in New York City, stood around with three other survivors and, he said later, "talked about what we did for a living." Stewardess Beverly Raposa led Christmas singing, afterward recalling, "We didn't do very well on Frosty the Snow Man because no one could remember the words...
...defamation is that a number of people who read the article knowing the falsehood of its allegation (many readers, of course, had no reason to doubt it--why would The Crimson print such things if they weren't true?) thought the libel to be beneath notice or even trivial. Others, they felt, were more seriously injured than I. Now it is an interesting comment on our time that a charge of corruption is thought trivial. Or perhaps it is a comment on the status of professors, whose good name should be as precious to them as to anyone...
...their offices but also the details of some of the major legislative issues they will face. The course's founder, Mark Talisman, 32, for ten years an assistant to Ohio Congressman Charles A. Vanik, spent one nonstop 4½-hr. class session on such not-so-trivial basics as where to turn in a proposed bill (in the "hopper" at the side of the Speaker's platform), who will assign it to a committee (the parliamentarian), who controls the parliamentarian (the Speaker) and what to do if both the parliamentarian and the Speaker refuse to help...
...this respect, the work of Nader's Raiders seems trivial. Not only have the authors borrowed heavily from the classical source book on Congress, Charles Clapp's The Congressman, but their purported revelations also reassert the discontinuity betweeb theory and fact of federal government which scholars have long noted and incorporated into their models. For example, many students of Congress accept the attrition Congressional initiative as a by-product of the welfare state. Pressures on the federal government to distribute more benefits and control more operations force, according to this model, the build up of power in the executive branch...
...vote against forming a union at Michigan State University, may be only temporary. Says M.S.U. Economist Walter Adams, who is also national president of the American Association of University Professors: "Two bad years in the legislature and some disliked administrative action-no matter how trivial-will eventually put over unionization...