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...Jones industrial average, the most closely watched barometer, fell 14 points, its largest decline in 18 months. On Friday, the Dow closed at 1,004, off 23 points for the week and down 48 points from its high so far in what was supposed to be a banner year...
Fall and Rise is a sad book. Sheridan admits that despite Robert Kennedy's crusade, the Teamsters have changed little. Despite the law-and-order banner, the Administration seems happy to play footsie with this tainted union. Despite the restriction imposed in the commutation of Hoffa's sentence - he is barred from an active leader ship role in the union until 1980 - ways around that problem can be found, or the terms can be amended. Before the next election...
...national anthem, that song has been under fire since the War of 1812. At the Mexico City Olympics, black athletes greeted it with a Black Power salute. In Munich, the mode was elaborate indifference. Last week The Star-Spangled Banner was again the center of a brief, ludicrous controversy at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There, the director of the U.S. Olympic Invitational Track Meet announced that it would not be played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials...
...aesthetic case to be made against the national anthem. As Bass-Baritone George London indicates, the song is "impossible to sing if you're sober...the words do not automatically communicate their message." Another opera star, Enrico Caruso, found so little to understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" no longer...
...story behind the mammoth headline added only slight details to the banner introduction...