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Incredible Secretaries. In three years as Education Commissioner, Keppel has knocked the old pedagogical stuffiness out of the Office of Education; for one thing, he has gotten the dozens of Ph.D.s there to quit calling each other "Doctor." Recently he overheard a staffer apologizing for never having gone to college. Keppel butted in with: "What the hell difference does that make...
...shirk danger, Farmer nevertheless pointedly stayed out of Los Angeles during the Watts riot. "No individual can stop a riot once it's gotten started," he states. "The most you can do is take the rioter's grievances and articulate them." Farmer tried doing just that during the Harlem riots in 1964, and soon found himself accused of leading the riot...
...fourth, because Milt Plum is an erratic quarter-back and the defensive secondary is being rebuilt. Los Angeles, with a number of good young players such as Bill Munson, Merlin McNeever, Brave Jones, and Merlin Olsen will be tough, but they need one more year of experience, to be gotten in fifth place...
...biographic film on the flimsy technical grounds that the full Board of Censors had never screened it. The Nacionalistas appealed to the courts and the ban was revoked. The Liberals carried the case to the Court of Appeals and the film was banned again. By last week it had gotten all the way to the Supreme Court, and it appeared that the legal struggle would continue indefinitely. Macapagal's problem is complicated by the fact that his own biographic film-despite simultaneous shooting in three studios and the Malacañang Palace-is not yet ready for release...
Affable Aronson, a Naval Academy graduate ('45) who still talks of market testing in terms of "shakedown cruises," has gotten considerable mileage out of his fuel. Ronson's butane lighters led to butane candles, basement workshop torches, and the butane chafing dish. Just as Gillette sells razors cheaply and counts on blade refills for profit, Ronson prices its butane appliances modestly, profits from refill sales of the fuel...