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Most immediate attention, however, is focused on Illinois, where ERA activists are pressuring legislators to make a rules change that would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths plurality to approve a constitutional amendment. Fasting and civil disobedience have become lobbying tactics. Last week 20 ardent ERA supporters chained themselves to the brass railing outside the senate chambers in Springfield, Ill. Said Mary Whitmore of Bellevue, Wash.: "These chains dramatize the economic slavery...
...Jackson Bate-is interesting, and another-Peter Gomes' sermonette on Commencement-rank's among the best chuncks of Harvardiana Two others, an appropriately short anthology of the wisdom of derek C Bok, and an official explanation of "What is Radcliffe" will be skipped over by all but the most ardent high scholars, and those who do read them will get what they deserve. The final new essay is a howl. Written by none other than Associate Dean of Freshmen, W.C. Burriss Young '55 and entitled "Sage Warnings to Freshmen," it brims over with advice on everything form food fights...
...defuse it (see photograph at right); a destroyer, H.M.S. Coventry, sunk by bombing; and a supply vessel, the Atlantic Conveyor, disabled and abandoned. The Conveyor was hit by the same type of Exocet missile that sank the British destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield four weeks ago. Including another frigate, H.M.S. Ardent, sunk on May 22, Britain said it had lost five ships in the struggle to regain the islands, but Argentina claimed Royal Navy losses were higher than that...
...about the war. The excitement, tinged with jingoism, of the early days of the conflict was gone; the destruction of four warships of the Royal Navy was a jolt. Telegrams of sympathy from across Britain, and from Canada, Australia and the U.S., poured into Plymouth, home port of the Ardent and the Antelope. Lord Mayor Reg Scott said his city's mood was one of "grief tempered with determination...
...Paul, simply: "Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on British soil." With that, applause from the congregation of 3,000 rolled through the cathedral. "My deep desire," the Pope said, as the eyes of his audience welled with emotion and tears, "my ardent hope and prayer is that my visit may serve the cause of Christian unity...