Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressman Diggs' guilt has been decided in a court of law. The act he was convicted of is definitely illegal. Mr. Young's belief that this illegal act is common practice in Congress could not be further from the truth...
...present dilemma really began in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his central government in exile moved to Taipei. After Peking entered the Korean War in 1950, President Truman helped secure the island from Communist conquest by interposing the U.S. Seventh Fleet between Taiwan and the mainland-an act incidentally that also prevented the Nationalists from trying to reconquer China. American support, both military and economic, eventually encouraged the Kuomintang to enact many of the reforms it had failed to carry out while in power on the mainland. Today, Taiwan is one of the best-run and least corrupt countries...
...Gramercy, La., plant of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. who had been rejected by a craft training program that reserved half its places for minorities. Weber sued Kaiser and his union, the United Steelworkers, and won: two federal courts ruled that under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Kaiser cannot use racial quotas without proof that it discriminated in the past...
...word now gets back to us. A lot of trust between faculty and students has been built up." Many of the youngsters seemed to need assurance that they would not kill themselves. Says School Social Worker Robert Klopfer: "Even though they had no real intention of committing such an act, the boundaries between thoughts and actions are blurred under such circumstances. Many kids were frightened...
...player who has seen it all; Animal, the out-of-control drummer who must be chained to the wall; Crazy Harry, the special-effects man who is fond of explosions; the incomprehensible and meatball-brained Swedish Chef; and such peripheral loonies as Lew Zealand, manager of a boomerang fish act...