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Next in the U.S. reaction was what was called the "empty-chair" approach. That would mean proceeding with plans for Atlantic partnership and European union as if De Gaulle's France were merely absent from the room. But there is one fatal flaw: France is not absent, and it is difficult to imagine any sort of economic, military or political plan for Western Europe that does not need, and must not seek to accommodate, France's presence...
Conspicuously absent in the Kennedy bill is any proposal for federal college scholarships, which irk conservative Congressmen. To meet the need for semiprofessional technicians, states would get $50 million a year in grants for building more public junior colleges. All colleges would get $1 billion in federal construction loans over three years...
...wage question could be settled if, for example, Mayor Wagner revived Mayor La Guardia's old "locked room" policy--locking negotiators up together in a hotel room until they come to an agreement. For the wage issue only requires sound and skillful negotiating. However, the Mayor has been characteristically absent from the stage of his city's major drama...
Much of the material is too well known already (e.g. "The Vicar of Bray" and Richard II's lament about the "death of kings") and most of the rest had been better left in darkest obscurity (to wit, "A Ballad to an Absent Friend" by Prince Albert, and Beethoven's variations on "God Save The King...
...desk sergeant who was on duty when Washington was brought into the station stated that he had seen him bleeding. The sergeant's testimony, however, was not followed up by Thomas J. Roche, the assistant corporation counsel who was appointed to try the case on behalf of the absent Washington...