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...source reported the FBI and FDA officials were very interested in reports of the illegal sale of drugs in Cambridge, and were anxious to apprehend any persons guilty of violating federal drug laws...
...magazines to set forth a network of ideas about the relationship between Negro and white, and between man and man, in this country. Because the experience he speaks from is so often beyond the boundaries established for our own lives, his conclusions are often difficult for white audiences to apprehend. Recently, as popular magazines have grown more willing to publish his work, Baldwin has appeared to be increasingly conscious of the gap between his readers and himself; and now, in the Nov. 17 issue of the New Yorker, he has published an article which carefully attempts to bridge...
...specific, let us take the example which the CRIMSON itself notes: the Alger Hiss Case. Mr. Schwarts refers to Hiss as a "victim" of Mr. Nixon. Well, so he was, in the sense that any criminal is the victim of the men who apprehend and prosecute him. But one gets the impression that something more than this was intended in the choice of that word "victim," one gets the impression that one is to feel sympathy for Hiss, that he was guilty only of providing a stepping stone for the career of an ambitious man. Lest it be forgotten...
Remarking on the strange failure of United States, British, and Dutch efforts to locate the missing liner, Albion pointed out that "the other countries may not want to get mixed up in a revolutionary plot." Under international law the navies, called to Portugal's aid by Premier Salazar, may apprehend the ship only on the open seas. "We can do nothing if she moves into any nation's territorial waters," a U.S. Navy spokesman said last night...
After all the charges and countercharges had been debated, the seminar wound up earnestly deploring "a loss of respect for women among young men," and calling on students to form "squads to apprehend and check" disrespectful behavior. All but lost in the righteous furor was the quietly reasonable voice of one male student. "Tell me," he asked, "is there any country in the world where the boys do not indulge in this game...