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When both men began quoting figures to back their interpretations of the week-old guidelines, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci interrupted with his gavel. "Now wait a minute. Let's get this arithmetic down so some of us non-lawyers can understand it. Both Phils come up to the board and we'll try to work this...
...came to an end last week, however, the pictures showed the same old gory sights of white-coated pups being battered to death on blood-spattered ice. Why were the seals - and Canada - getting clobbered again? As it turned out, Ottawa had simply delayed the hunt, hoping that the week-old white pups would have matured to ordinary, uninteresting brown mammals by the time it began. Unexpectedly, however, mother seals whelped several weeks late this year, and many of their pups were at their familiar photogenic peak when the hunt began. The result was another field day for Canada...
...blacks left to protest the "racist nature" of the school's disciplinary proceedings against students who participated in an obstructive picket line almed at a G.E. recruiter Wednesday. Four black students were among the 16 suspended for violating the institution's week-old "open campus rule...
...razor with a vacuum attachment that would suck up bristles -which otherwise might float freely and clog up instruments in the weightless environment of the spacecraft. The Apollo 10 astronauts had a simpler solution. They broke out a razor and a tube of brushless shaving cream and attacked their week-old beards in the traditional manner. The bristles were successfully contained in gobs of shaving cream that were scraped from their faces and collected in a towel. Said Cernan: "That's one of the most refreshing things that's happened in the last couple of days...
...first time, Mayor Jerome Cavanagh stepped into Detroit's 17-week-old newspaper strike that has shut down both the Free Press and the News. "This continued strike is a disgrace bordering on calamity," he told both sides last week. "This has gone far beyond any reasonable bounds. We all share a responsibility to resolve this demoralizing situation quickly because of the unique and critical problems confronting our city at the present time...