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...proof text. They demand a strictly communal life as practiced by the early Christians according to the Book of Acts ("they held everything in common"). They avoid work except as it relates to their own communes, lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic moments, they dress in red sackcloth (a sign of warning), daub themselves with ashes, put yokes around their necks. With...
...more U.S.-built Phantom jets, particularly in view of continuing Soviet military aid to Egypt. The U.S., however, insists that Middle East arms are still in balance and refuses to provide additional planes. Last week Israel played up the news that eight to ten more Soviet TU-16 "Badger" bombers had arrived in Cairo and that they were capable of carrying air-to-ground Kennel missiles with a range of 50 miles. Washington maintained that in spite of these Badgers the Middle East arms balance had still not been upset. The Israelis thereupon complained that U.S. intelligence has erred...
...heat for first place last weekend in a 15-50 victory over Lehigh and LaSalle, with Fikes close on their heels. They run naturally and well as a unit, and unless Harvard's Marshall Jones and John Quirk can pressure them, there is a distinct possibility that they can badger Rojas and Koerner out of contention...
...clean!", is not exactly a zinger, either. The U.S. Forest Service has countered with Woodsy the Owl, presumably a wise and likable bird whose message, "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute," may have a better chance of reaching children; they in turn might be counted on to badger their parents about littering and similar offenses...
...most recent evidence is provided by Dr. Ramon Lange, chief of cardiology at Milwaukee County General Hospital, who reviewed the cases of workers at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis. Last April a woman whose work at the plant involved handling nitroglycerin, a component of dynamite, was referred to him for treatment of chest pains, which seemed to occur only on weekends...