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Noticeably absent for most of the Catering Service's stay here was Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm, who seems to be preparing to run a stand of her own at Miami Beach...
Noticeably absent for most of the Catering Service's stay here was Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm, who seems to be preparing to run a stand of her own at Miami Beach...
...monkeys won a new lease on life last week when the government banned professional hunting. The law means that a dozen major skin exporters will have to close down. The authorities also issued a tough set of new regulations concerning amateur hunting, including a list of permissible game. Notably absent: all of the big cats, monkeys, toucans, manatees and all endangered species...
...Flags. Two weekends ago, more than 50,000 revolutionary leftists and socialist sympathizers marched under an undulating sea of red flags, as Overney was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, the place where the Communards of 1871 had been put against the wall and shot to death. Conspicuously absent from the funeral were members of the powerful French Communist Party, whose union-the Confédération Générate du Travail (CGT) -represents the Renault workers. Mindful of the popular backlash in 1968 that made the Gaullists stronger than ever, and still eager to establish...
...Senate's antibusing stance (TIME, March 6). Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern-cast decisive votes as the Senate reversed its adoption of the extreme antibusing amendment pushed by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. Carried by just three votes a week earlier-with all five Democratic presidential contenders absent -the Griffin amendment would have removed the courts' authority to order the busing of children...