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...other people (an overbooked hotel can only make room by evicting some other tenant, an overbooked airline by bumping some other passenger), they should complain anyway. It may not do any good this time, but maybe next time the airline/hotel will stop overbooking. There is probably no need to resort to such dramatic ploys as that of one airplane pilot who, informed by a Paris hotel that his long-booked room was not available, stripped to his underwear and lay down on a lobby sofa until the hotel management capitulated...
Miami Beach will not be the only resort drawing political coverage. Edward Kennedy took himself firmly out of the running last week and expects to stay at Hyannisport, Mass., during the Democratic Convention. But at least one network and a number of newspapers have booked motel rooms near by for the week beginning July 10-just in case some lightning strikes there anyway...
...depletion allowance. He promises a comprehensive tax-reform program, higher corporate taxes, an end to escape from taxation by the rich. He would cut the Pentagon budget, but not without bilateral concessions from the U.S.S.R. He favors jobs for all, with the Federal Government as the employer of last resort. He wants a 25% increase in Social Security benefits...
...feel that there is a ready market for Harvard bartenders and waitresses in the summer, particularly in the resort areas on the North and South Shores," he said...
...simple morality tale about the acceptance of responsibility--responsibility for one's commitments (for example, in marriage) and responsibility for one's fellow human beings (including, in this case, the village idiot). It is the acceptance of this responsibility that marks the transition into adulthood, not the resort to violence. And it is this lesson that both husband and wife must learn when faced with the attack of the local Cornwall ruffians. Epps mentions only the defense carried out by the husband, and thereby turns it into a demonstration of masculinity, but he omits to mention the climactic scene...