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...judgment of a senior tutor," Moore said "any pet is not being cared for, or is left alone for long periods of time, privileges may again be withheld from the owner...
Last April, HEW officials withheld some contract money after the investigating team was denied access to Harvard's personnel files, but the funds were restored after University officials decided to open the files to the investigators...
With glacial calm, Madame de Gaulle asked that news of the General's death be withheld "until I can notify my family." She quickly reached her daughter Elizabeth in Paris, who set out for Colombey with her husband General Alain de Boissieu. Son Philippe, a navy captain stationed in Brest, was more difficult to locate. As a result, Pompidou was not notified until 4 a.m., and it was not until 17½ hours after his mentor's death that he finally went on television. "General de Gaulle is dead," he said. "France is a widow...
Another novel with a homosexual theme? Ho-hum. But Maurice, announced last week for publication in about a year, is by the late great English novelist E.M. Forster, and so rates as a major literary event. Written in 1913, Forster's sixth novel was withheld by the author of A Passage to India until after his death because, according to his literary executor W.J.H. Sprott, "He thought there would be some stir about it and he did not want to be involved." Forster's own homosexuality is dealt with movingly by his authorized biographer, P.N. Furbank...
...federal court in Buffalo ruled three weeks ago that the city of Lackawanna, N.Y., had practiced discrimination in refusing to allow 138 low-cost housing units to be built in a nearly all-white neighborhood. Blacks were expected to occupy most of the homes. Lackawanna officials withheld the approval that would have permitted construction and rezoned the area for park and recreational purposes. Attorneys for the city contended that the project would have overlooked Lackawanna's sewer system. "Mere rationalization," said U.S. District Judge John T. Curtin...