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Three liberals and independent vice mayor Leonard J. Russell voted against both of the amendments. Mayor Sullivan voted for one and against another, and liberal David A. Wylie was absent from the meeting. The amendments failed by 4-to-4 and 4-to-5 votes...
...breath-stopping ride. Among the passengers are George, an absent-minded professor of moral philosophy absorbed in his upcoming lecture billed "Man-Good, Bad or Indifferent?"; his ex-showgirl-songstress wife Dotty; and her psychiatrist lover, Sir Archibald Jumper, who is the vice chancellor and pragmatic villain of the college where George teaches. More bizarre companions include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school...
...MORE THAN holes in the story, there is a sense of how much of the real lives of outlaws is absent, and how much of the society which is inseparable from their crimes. The gang encounters law-abiding citizens only accidentally, as when Bowie rams his new car into another vehicle, or in the course of the robberies which seem to be just strung out one after another...
...days ago the Chowder and Marching Club, the Republican social and study group, met a little later for one of their discussion breakfasts, and Pollster Louis Harris was the guest. Nixon was absent, and in that cloistered environment the men were not so hesitant. They asked two basic questions: "Could the country come together under Ford?" Yes, said Harris. There would be a great honeymoon period. "If Nixon were impeached and convicted before next November," one man asked, "would a Ford endorsement help Republicans up for re-election?" Well, said Harris, it would be more effective than Nixon...
...alcoholic employee is absent 2½ times as often as a nonalcoholic. Indeed, he is partially absent even when he is working, often demonstrating much less efficiency than his nonalcoholic colleagues. If he is fired, the investment that the company has put into his training is lost altogether. "The company of any size that says it does not have an alcohol problem is kidding itself," says Ray Kelly, an Illinois state mental health official. In any typical group of workers, 3% to 4% are likely to be disruptive drinkers...