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McMillan has willingly weathered the ostracism. "He'd give Job stiff competition for patience," says his secretary. With characteristic good humor, he prizes a battery-run toy school bus given him by a fellow judge and periodically zooms it around his office carpet. (The toy manufacturer provided the bus with white student passengers only.) "A judge would ordinarily like to decide cases to suit his neighbors," McMillan admits. But in this case, he could...
...oceans and beaches by oil tankers. It is frightening to realize that in order to save four days' time, the captain of the tanker was willing to risk damage to his ship and the "pollution of beaches from Holland to Spain." Penalties should be leveled and be stiff enough to make the loss of time a very attractive alternative...
...Phyllis, the other as the tender young maid-a commonplace G and S device, but a good one. Oliver Twom are both very good, one as an elderly Victoria type, bly and Karl Deirup are fine as Lords, but William Pomeroy's Strephon is weak-a bit too stiff, and not very authentic. The peers are magnificent in such numbers as "Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes...". although their makeup is completely ineffective; they look like a chorus of nineteen-year-olds playing British peers...
...harbors deep enough to accommodate the great ships, and all are in Maine-on a coast famous for its beauty, sailing and fishing. To protect this unspoiled area from the danger of laden tankers foundering in treacherous, often fogbound waters, the state last year enacted strong environmental laws with stiff penalties on oil spills (TIME, Feb. 16, 1970). Last week, at hearings before Maine's Environmental Improvement Commission, those laws met their severest test to date...
Quaint Expression. The taxi industry is maintaining a stiff upper meter. According to Arthur Gore, publisher of the trade sheet Taxi News, "It is only a question of time before people come round." But with the imminence of summer, traditionally a slack season anyway, drivers aren't so sure. "I drove all the way from Wall Street to the East Side without a fare today," lamented Max Fuchs. "With a situation like this, I feel like getting loaded...