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Occasionally, a meeting proâ€" duces sparks, a clash, a conflict of personalities or ideas that light the Stygian gloom. I well remember one town _ council meeting. One of the councillors, somewhat the wear for someâ€" thing or other, califd one of the other councillors, ‘"‘a gibbering old baboon." A nice thrust. He wasn‘t too far off the mark, but was in no condition himself to hurl such charges. The offended party promptly started peeling off his jacket, and offerâ€" ed to thrash the other "within an inch of your life."‘ The other councillors, and even the mayor, quailed. Chiefly, beâ€" cause both councillors were well Ninetyâ€"five percent of meetâ€" ings are unnecessary, unenlightâ€" ening, and unproductive. They are the refuge of bores of both sexes, who take out their personâ€" al frustrations by frustrating everyone else. These people have their little dinkies: _ Raising points of order; moving amendâ€" ments to the motion; and hagâ€" gling for interminable times over items that could be solved in eight seconds by a threeâ€"yearâ€" old with two heads. Meetings, as such, are a partiâ€" cular annex in hell for anyone who has been in the newspaper business and attended at least one, and sometimes two, every working day of the year. I have just got home from something as rare and delightful as a personally conducted tour of Buckingham Palaceâ€"a teachâ€" er‘s staff meeting that lasted only half an hour. This is equivaâ€" lent to building the Pyramids in three weeks. FRONT . 49° Ib. HALF . . .59° lb. HIND . . . 70° lb. 6 Waterioo Chronicle, Thursday, November 12, 1970 Sun Valley Beach 3 miles past St. Agatha on Erbs Road Government Inspected YOUNG BEEF Call 634â€"8651 Cut and Wrapped To Your Satisfaction Bill Smiley I‘d like to hear what you think about long hair, girls wearing slacks, and all the other things that were unacceptable in our day. Drop a line. One commercial teacher, who could have been expected to come down heavily on the side of ‘"no slacks," said she didn‘t care if they wore fig leaves, It was fantastic, but the openâ€" ly, and bluntly expressed feeling of the majority was that girls should be allowed to wear whatâ€" ever was in style. And that was that. Anyway, I expected a maraâ€" thon. About three hours. They can wear slacks, but only once a week. They can wear slacks, but they can‘t wear blue jeans. Nobody in my class is going to wear slacks. If it‘s all right for the boys to wear blue jeans, why can‘t the girls. And so on. They are comfortable, they can look smart, they are warm in our frigid winters, they prevent boys from peeking up the stairs as the girls ascend in miniâ€"skirts, and they have probably contributed more to containing the populaâ€" tion explosion than the oldâ€"fashâ€" ioned nightâ€"dress. This particular staff meeting was about girls wearing slacks. Human experience has showed that girls will wear whatever other girls are wearing. And girls, these days, are wearing slacks. Do you say, "Uh, well, uh, Jeâ€" sus, uh. Throw that gum in the basket!"‘ Or would you say, "OK, Buster, turn that blackboard into an ouija board."‘ ‘"Jesus wore long hair and a beard, didn‘t he?" How do you counter this one (a favorite, by the way, among male students)? Deep moral, social and psyâ€" chological issues are involved in a problem of this magnitude. Is gum bad for the teeth? 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