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...their plans for private busing. Committees set up at the earlier meeting had compiled a list of vacant seats available in various Boston schools. According to a 15-year-old school department policy, any Boston child can enroll in any Boston school with vacancies, once he gets a transfer slip from his neighborhood principal. Since the urban white districts tend to have an older population than the Negro areas, they frequently have vacant places in their schools...
...Some 30 miles northwest of Saigon, the 173rd Airborne, together with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, struck back into the "Iron Triangle" combed by allied forces only three weeks ago. The first operation encountered few V.C., but the guerrillas love to slip back into an area recently "cleared," and so this time the allies were double-checking with lethal thoroughness. Twice B-52s from Guam pounded the Triangle's rain forest and rubber trees. When the Airborne moved in, they carried tear gas-to protect the innocent as well as to flush...
...seldom heard from again. In 1947 she showed up on TV as Mrs. Hush, the mystery guest on Truth or Consequences. In 1960 she made news by writing Hedda Hopper: "I slip my old crown of It Girl not to Taylor or Bardot but to Monroe...
...Cleveland Browns, with their leaky defense starting to give way, will slip to third. Frank Ryan and Jimmy Brown will see to it that the Browns score plenty, but any team in the league could crack the defense...
...vote against the substitute. So it appears that the opposition of conservatives to home rule, resentment at the arm-twisting used by the Administration to bring the bill to the floor, and the promotion of Lawrence O'Brien have permitted Washington's best chance ever for self-government to slip away. It may seem inevitable now that home rule will come some day, but it seemed just as inevitable in take the bill away from the District Committee. Just when the petition was within two votes of success, 10 names were withdrawn. Things have a way of disintegrating in Washington...