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...Stung by the amount and extreme violence of such punishment, Dallas Attorney Fred Time recently brought suit against the school district on behalf of the parents of Oliver, Ware and others. Time did not seek to abolish corporal punishment altogether, but to limit it to cases where parents gave their approval. He lost his suit when the Fifth Circuit Court agreed with a lower court that they had no jurisdiction, but he plans an appeal. Said Time last week: "We are going to try to go all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Nwafor has great sport with my name. To invoke the street dialect, one can ask: nwafor, whafoah? Because he has been stung by my letter and with a flurry of auto-didact learning ("It is not that I believe with Tolstoy...") and some cheap polemic ("rigid cold war stance") he seeks to obscure the thrust of my query: What could you have learned in 10 days that was so extraordinary that you could share with your class on The Politics of Liberation...
...Stung by adverse criticism resulting from its general frustration in the New York matches against Columbia and CCNY, the Crimson sabre squad came up with eight victories and only one loss against the intimidated Baltimore fencers...
Tougher Stand. A stiffening attitude is also evident on the Pay Board. In two previous rulings, the board's five business representatives sided with its five labor representatives in approving coal miners' and railway signalmen's contracts that were far above its 5.5% limit. Stung by criticism that they were knuckling under to labor to avoid strikes, the businessmen are now taking a tougher stand. They plan automatically to challenge all wage settlements above 7% in the second and third years of long-term contracts signed before the August freeze. Getting such boosts approved has been...
...better comparison would be with Pittsburgh. Ford's project and Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle command views not of a shimmering lake but of busy riverfronts. Moreover, the Fords in Detroit, like the Pittsburgh Mellons, have clearly been stung by criticism that they have not done enough to stem the deterioration of the city where they base their fortunes. Henry's brother, William Clay Ford, plans to move his Detroit Lions football team to Pontiac, Mich., for example, and Ford Motor Co. is building a $750 million commercial and residential complex in nearby Dearborn. Both projects threaten...