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Last month Alabama Governor George Wallace secluded himself in a cottage on the Gulf Coast and decided that he had no desire to live among the "pointy-headed bureaucrats" in Washington. So he withdrew from the scramble for the Senate seat held by retiring John Sparkman...
...original bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul D. Rogers (D-Fla.), contained strong language on federal standards, but when an amendment softened the bill's language, Harvard withdrew its support. Rep. Harley O. Staggers (D-W. Va.), chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Health and Environment, asked a Harvard lobbyist to draw up a new bill. Staffers associated with drafting the DNA legislation said the Harvard bill contained errors in procedural language, and said Rogers developed an alternative bill. Rogers persuaded Staggers to accept this bill, which restored the strong federal override clause. The bill...
Furthermore, the Corporation states that South African or other foreign firms will be able to take the place of U.S. companies. Again, it provides no support for this conclusion. If U.S. companies withdrew it would finally convince whites in South Africa, as the white newspaper editor Donald Woods has pointed out, that they cannot ultimately rely on U.S. support to bolster apartheid. Foreign firms would be unwilling to take over from American investors, for they would view the situation as much more "unstable...
...been more receptive to complaints about their marketing practices. In the summer of 1976, the Abbott Corporation set up an office to investigate bottle feeding abuses, and in March of the next year that firm took its milk nurses out of uniform. In February of last year, Borden, Inc. withdrew all promotion of its KLIM milk to infants...
Monday night the cast elected Jacqueline Osherow '78 as the new director, Tim G. Atkeson '79, another producer, said yesterday. After Borowitz and Crist withdrew their works on Tuesday, producers and cast met and decided to cancel the show, Atkeson added...