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...held the post for 19 controversial years. He defended the right of students to invite speakers of all ideologies and spoke up for trade unionists and the pioneer civil rights demonstrators. Though these positions made him an anathema to many Southern conservatives, Graham was appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat in 1949. The following year he lost the nomination for a full term after a campaign bitter with racial overtones. For the next 16 years Graham worked as a U.N. mediator in a determined but unsuccessful effort to resolve the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir...
...million had been threatened with a $20 million cut in the coming fiscal year. Responding to public pressure, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has canceled the cut, announcing that the department's budget will instead be increased by $20 million. That will allow Willowbrook to fill at least 300 vacant positions. But it is unlikely to improve conditions at the institution. "Attendants aren't enough," explains Hammond. "We need to get 2,000 patients out of here...
...fine plane, liked by most passengers and pilots. But with business still less than exuberant, the lines find it hard to fill enough seats on the big plane to make money on some routes. To lure passengers, several lines are removing some of the vacant seats and replacing them with bars, pianos and lounges. TWA, for example, has cut its capacity on a jumbo from 342 to 318 seats. Many lines seem to prefer the new tri-jet Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011. Both have a shorter range than the 747, but they are cheaper...
Okonjo said Lee had told one of her tenants, Laurie Antonick, a secretary at B.U., to look for someone to fill a vacant apartment in the building. "Laurie told me about the apartment and advised that I call James Chin, Mrs. Lee's agent," Okonjo said...
...movie actress. He called Noah Dietrich in the Houston headquarters of Hughes Tool and ordered him to Los Angeles on "an emergency" errand. There, Dietrich was instructed to go to an empty apartment and pick up a laundry bag containing Hughes' clothing; he was to burn it in a vacant lot. Dietrich simply donated the clothes to charity...