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...procure his weekly bus, Sanders would slip into a Greyhound driver's uniform, walk into the company yards, slip behind the wheel of an empty bus and rumble away. At trip's finish he returned the bus to its bay. The scheme might lave rolled on indefinitely if Sanders had not dozed off that last afternoon. When he didn't pick up his passengers, one of them called Greyhound to find out why their bus was late...
...country. White and black have shared that secret for a long time now, and have done an efficient job of keeping it from each other. The smile that connected John Grimes and the old man, while pleasant enough for the occasion, was historically speaking a lapse of judgment, a slip of the heart. If Baldwin had been writing news instead of fiction, John might never have thought to apologize, and the old man might have swung his cane like a war club...
Serena H. Yoon '82, South House Committee chairman, said yesterday that House members chose to back the committee's previous decision because "it's too easy to slip into the run of boycott without really analyzing our position carefully...
...fifth day, Lew is would repeat the process, this time by writing up a new ticket for a larger amount of money. He would then cover his heist of five days earlier by forwarding the credit slip from the new ticket, along with the debit slip from the old ticket, to the Santa Monica branch, causing the MAPS account in that branch to appear to be not just in balance, but flush with new funds. These too could then be drawn down and go unnoticed for five days...
Despite Amos's qualified optimism administrators in the Med School and the SPH fear that Reagan's promises to eliminate aid for students in the health professions currently authorized by the department of Health and Human Services will slip past Congress