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...current controversy was brought about by the Interreligious Center for Urban Affairs Inc., a St. Louis social-action group, funded by 17 religious denominations. Black Jack was still an unincorporated bedroom community when the center signed a purchase agreement for 11.9 acres of a former bean field two days before Christmas 1969. The land was to be the site of a low-income housing project, the sixth that the group had initiated, the first in the suburbs. Says Center Director Jack Quigley: "If we were not to be guilty of gilding the ghetto, we would have to get into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fixing the Odds in Black Jack | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...first six Eastern League games, Cornell has not used a relief??tcher. If the Big Red can continue to practice, they will be tough to bean the League. But if the Crimson ??force coach Ted Thoren to go to his ??lpen, Harvard will have uncovered ??ell's weakness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bats Bury Army | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

...luncheon with Professor Seymour Martin Lipset in the sanctuary of the Lehman Hall small dining room. (The crowded, noisy Lehman Hall cafeteria outside is an SDS hangout for people so alienated from their fellow students that they refuse to sat in the house dining halls...) ... With his string-bean thin tie and crumpled suit, Lipset seemed the very human, modest, and even shy genius...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Youth Push Comes To Shove | 5/15/1970 | See Source »

...there will be some changes in the routine. To prevent the kind of blackout caused when Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean inadvertently pointed his TV camera at the sun, the astronauts have been instructed to keep their color camera aimed at least 45° away from the solar disk. The Apollo 13 camera also is equipped with a lens cap and has a backup: a spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Dawning of Aquarius | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Only two weeks ago, the confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carswell to fill the ninth seat on the U.S. Supreme Court looked to be as sure a thing as bean soup on the Senate dining room's daily menu. Between Southern conservatives backing a sympathetic Floridian and Republican liberals hesitant to buck President Nixon a second time after defeat of the Haynsworth nomination in November, the White House forces counted 55 pro-Carswell votes. Last week, however, three factors coalesced to place the Carswell nomination in sudden and serious jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Carswell in Trouble | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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