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...roll-call vote, the Council waived a provision in state law that requires it to mail notices of a referendum to all registered voters at least seven days before an election. The waiver, which followed a brief hearing, spared the City the problem of finding $5000 and enough clerical help to dispatch nearly 47,000 pieces of first-class mail...
...past it, sparked a labor dispute by insisting that a girl's wings should not be clipped because of age. "Do I look like an old bag?" asked a pert 35-year-old who, like 70 other over-32 American stewardesses, is still flying under a waiver because she joined American before it established its grounding policy in 1953. The stewardesses' protest was no mere girlish outburst: they also seek higher wages and fewer hours in the new contract that the Transport Workers Union is now negotiating for them with American. American argues that it guarantees ground jobs...
Since the scandal started breaking, Governor Rockefeller has cooperated energetically with the grand jury's investigations and with the New York City district attorney's office. He fired S.L.A. Chairman Martin Epstein, who refused to testify under an immunity waiver, appointed an ex-FBI man to take his place. Even so, Rockefeller will inevitably, as Governor, be tarred with some responsibility for the scandal, if only because he appointed Epstein chairman of S.L.A. And the scandal will not go away any time soon. New York City's Assistant D.A. Alfred Scotti has ten accountants, 60 detectives...
...Surrounded on all sides by the armed forces and oppressive power of the United States of America, my courage and my convictions do not waiver," he continued. "My heart still says 'never' but my calm judgment abhors the bloodshed that will follow...
...With a waiver from the Screen Actors Guild, the show often uses non-actors as extras when skills are required that actors could not readily acquire-machinists, bakers, athletes. It would be vastly simpler to shoot the whole thing in a studio, but the show savors the authentic sights and sounds of the city. By now, the crew has learned to cope with almost anything...