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...Peggy Loewe had a wonderful trip?until the plane touched down in the U.S. The flight landed right on time, but there was a 45-minute wait for a parking ramp at Kennedy Airport. After trying in vain to hail a taxi (said a policeman: "Ya gotta be aggressive here, lady"), she boarded the crowded airport bus for a jostling ride to Manhattan's East Side Airlines Terminal, which is located away from almost everything. She waited in a long line for a taxi, then shared it with three strangers (all of whom paid full fare). At Grand Central Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...looks in vain for any opinion Carswell has written that has made a contribution to the law." Bok said last night...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Law Professors Sign Statement Opposing Carswell's Nomination | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...federal program would have to be directed at whole neighborhoods. Instead of building new subsidized public housing -which often "locks people into the cities," as Kristof puts it-federal housing and aid might better be used to make neighborhoods attractive to middle-class families that cities are struggling in vain to retain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: when Landlords Walk Away | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...looks for a form to incorporate it, and it looks for a type of form that it can incorporate. When the two meet-you have a poem." He works a long time on individual poems; quoting Paul Valery, he said, "A poem is never finished-it is only abandoned." Vain about his knowledge of meter, he complained peevishly that critics "can't even recognize a choriamb-and if they're critics, they should be able...

Author: By City WITHOUT Walls, | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...last time that Harvard beat Yale in swimming. "Johnny Angel" was the number-one song on the Billboard Top 40. Today in New Haven the Crimson will try to stop that losing streak, but its efforts will almost surely be in vain...

Author: By B. B., | Title: Undefeated Yale Hosts Swimmers | 3/7/1970 | See Source »

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