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Kaufmann stressed that his office was "trying to avoid the blanket approach" in its dealings with the various departments, taking into account changes in student enrollment, purchase of needed equipment, and development of new course offerings...
...most editors agree. After all, three of the Justices thought prior restraint on publication was called for in that case, and individual opinions showed that a majority might favor its use in other circumstances. With the death of Justice Hugo Black, who felt the First Amendment gave the press blanket protection, future court votes might go even farther in the direction of restriction...
...elements fell into place: splat. Thus the reader is only mildly alarmed when, after several chapters of Wheels, Hailey's new novel about the auto industry, the president of General Motors has not reappeared. He was there on the first page, sleepy and cross because a defective electric blanket had given him a bad night. He tinkered with the blanket, fixed it, and drove out of sight in his Cadillac, headed for work. Trivial stuff, apparently, but the practiced Hailey reader knows that it may be important. In good time, surely, the author will reveal whether excessive G forces...
With the Sunday paper for sheet and blanket and a tombstone as headboard, the two young men sleeping in Boston's historic Old Granary Burying Ground last week looked at first glance like a thousand others of the city's derelicts. Waking at dawn, they warmed up in the Park Street subway station, washed their dirty faces in the Trailways bus terminal, then looked for work at a day-labor hiring hall. In fact, there was only one thing that separated Frank Huszar and Peter Dahm from the mob of down-and-outers in the hall. The others...
...Blanket and Slipper. Le Club began its career in 1969, after Founder Ferdinand Koos was forced to abandon his vacation because most French hotels were put off by the fact that he planned to bring along his three Great Danes. It now boasts 800 host families and 1,000 satisfied customers. One of them is William Bader, an American foundation official who left his Irish setter, Shenandoah, with the club for two weeks. "When the young driver called for my setter," he reported, "he asked to take along the dog's blanket and an old slipper. When I said...