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...Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would not be finalized...
From his wood-paneled suite high above Manhattan, Hammarskjold had operated his international civil service (5,000 employees in scores of countries) with quiet efficiency. He could fix a diplomat's parking ticket with the New York police, arrange the cleaning of the 5,400 windows at U.N. headquarters, send food to famine areas, or mediate a Middle East war threat with the same dispassionate precision. But in a rare lapse, as he left for the Congo fortnight ago, Hammarskjold had failed to designate an Acting Secretary-General to run the shop in his absence...
...each part of a sculpture should balance and play against the others. The Dwarf is not just a bittersweet sculpture of a sadly deformed human being: the strings of the cat's cradle start the viewer's eye on its voyage; the great hands and arms fix the circumference of the block, which is thus both open and closed at the same time. In Aaron, which is 8 ft. high, the shafts around the tepee-like tabernacle are balanced and continued by the symbols of the tribes of Israel that grow weedlike out of Aaron's back...
...city is divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year...
...running battle that has raged for the past three years between the Government and the U.S. drug industry was shifted last week to the courts. Charging conspiracy to fix prices and limit competition, the Justice Department won a grand jury antitrust indictment against three of the nation's largest antibiotic producers and their chief executives. The defendants: American Cyanamid and its chairman, Wilbur G. Malcolm; Charles Pfizer & Co. and Chairman John E. McKeen; Bristol-Myers Co. and President Frederic N. Schwartz...