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Barnardsville Elementary School in North Carolina has installed a vending machine to sell noncarbonated soft drinks; coins deposited in it go into the lunch program. Says Principal Roy P. McGuinn: "I'm opposed to it, but I'll compromise my principles that far to help this program." Leith Walk Elementary School in Baltimore is considering buying prepackaged lunches from outside suppliers instead of preparing food in its own kitchen...
...tired of being told at the beginning of each season that the Patriots will win the division. It happens every single time. If it's not Roy Reiss, it's some other clown -- "watch out for the Patriots! They're looking really really tough!"-- and then they lose...
Last week Shadow Cabinet Home Secretary Roy Hattersley, Healey's chief strategist, warned that the left's attempt to take control of the party manifesto "will alienate millions of our supporters, tearing the party into tatters and denying us the electoral victory the country needs." Noted the London Observer: "A fundamental battle about the nature of the Labor movement is now joined, with not only its policies but its whole direction within the body politic at issue...
...expected to defect to the Social Democrats, who are already the most potent new force to arrive on the British political scene since the Labor Party itself was formed in 1900. The S.D.P. was founded last spring by the so-called Gang of Four-former Labor Cabinet Ministers Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and William Rodgers-after longstanding differences between Labor's left and right wings finally seemed irreconcilable. The Social Democrats now have only 16 M.P.s-15 disaffected Laborites and one ex-Tory-but have built up wide public support for their moderate views. Party leaders endorse British membership...
Wilkins once commented that the two people he most admired in history were the black revolutionaries Harriet Tubman and Nat Turner. By remaining a peaceful man of reason, Roy Wilkins well earned a place among his heroes...