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...hairbrush and a lighted cigarette, finally ripped the buttons off her blouse. Said Susan later: "She made an insulting remark, and it infuriated me. I went toward her, and a wrestling match ensued . . . I'm red-haired and Irish, you know." After swearing out an assault-and-battery complaint against Susan, Jil, whose good fight had done her movie career no harm, purred testily: "I don't want this bad publicity. But why should I sit back and let this woman clobber me?" Before he galloped off to a hideout, Cowboy Barry drawled fair-and-square: "Look...
Author Dunn's complaint is not that she had to work too hard (often ten hours a day) or that she was paid too little (take-home pay of $40 a week). She admired most of her colleagues and was deeply attached to many of her students. But somehow, from the first roll call each morning and the distribution of the various questionnaires that floated down from the upper bureaucracy ("Are there any defective electrical sockets in your home? Check Yes or No"), her day became a fight against exhaustion...
...business and religion. Many thoughtful churchmen also have reservations. They fear that too much time can be devoted to public relations, morale and production-boosting projects having little to do with religion; others worry that industrial chaplains steal away parishioners from established local pastors. But by far the biggest complaint comes from union leaders, who fear that management will use religion as a weapon against labor and to talk down justified complaints and demands. Said the Protestant Christian Century: "The first danger in a company-paid chaplaincy is that the chaplain may become a company-paid errand boy for bolstering...
...barge before 75,000 spectators at the opening of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. His identification with his sponsor is so strong that any Lincoln or Mercury buyer who is dissatisfied with his car is apt to drop Ed a complaining line. (Within ten days after such a complaint, the local district manager is on the phone or the car owner's doorstep, solicitously asking what he can do to help...
...Another complaint that the advisors had made was against courses having enrollment limitations which were not listed in the course catalog. Investigation yesterday disclosed that this argument holds only against Humanities 3, where a limit had to be imposed when one section man was drafted during the summer...