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...driving school, and hung out her L. After only 40 lessons, she was ready for a trial spin. But her jolting stops and starts so terrified her instructor that he got out of the car, remarking: "This is lunacy; it's suicide. I'm not going another inch with you. I've had enough." Undeterred, plucky Miss Hunter had another go two days later, sideswiped a five-ton truck and demolished her car. "The garage told me it's a write-off," she said sweetly...
...past, though, the Administration's role has largely been that of friendly mediator, suggesting solutions and helping two dissident parties inch toward compromise. This time was different. Neither a Taft-Hartley injunction nor a platoon of regular federal mediators did any good. So Kennedy named a three-man mediation board, headed by labor-leaning Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, and threatened the strikers and shippers with congressional intervention if they did not go along with the final terms of the board. It was practically compulsory arbitration. As Senator Morse put it: "Take it or leave...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!" in inch-high scrawls--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't ('Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. And of course, always write outlines on the inside front cover, even if you have to do it after finishing the essay: it saves us the trouble of reading the garbage ahead...
They crowded in on the car, which seemed alive with arms and faces thrust through the windows. The driver tried to inch ahead. A voice shrieked: "Watch out! You're running over somebody!" The driver tried to back up-no use. A woman's legs appeared on the hood, and disappeared as she climbed over the windshield and onto the roof. More people began stomping on the roof, and as it started to cave in, Larrazábal climbed out a window and onto the roof to try to calm the mob. A fat woman in a tight...
Patiently, Kaoru ground and polished an eight-inch parabolic mirror. He made a tube out of tin plate. The whole instrument cost him only $20. At first it did not work very well, as is usually the case with home-made telescopes. But Kaoru repeatedly took it apart to reduce its faults...