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...just one more routine Late Arrival. But as luck had it, one of the irate passengers was Massachusetts' Republican Representative John W. Heselton. Fuming at what he called New Haven President Patrick McGinnis' "public-be-damned policy," Heselton announced that he will ask Congress to fix "civil or criminal penalties" for railroaders who cannot run their trains on time...
...frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs to get him round the bend. One fix leads to another, and another to another, until one day he is sitting in a cheap hotel with a price on his head and nothing to stop the pain of being alive. He begs a blonde tramp...
...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
...agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...
...White House, Connelly went along as appointments secretary. Last week Matt Connelly, 48, now a New York public relations counselor, was on the receiving end of an investigation: he was indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Louis that accused him of accepting money to help fix a tax case in the period...