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...three other victims in the hold-up were David Geiger, Grant's brother, Kenneth Beck, and a woman the University police declined to identity...
...work up a dander when the behemoth was sweating himself to death? From there the magic returned, the faith restored, Foreman's end stood at Ali's beck and call. It came quickly, too. In a second or so. Allah's justice is not just and swift retribution. For those in Ali's fold, it took a long time...
...Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Imperato has written a study of dog bites in New York City from 1965 to 1970. They report that more than 43% of the bites in the survey were by dogs weighing 50 lbs. or more. Confirming their findings, Urban Ecologist Alan Beck, also of Washington University, says that from 1963 to 1973, A.K.C. registrations of large-breed dogs increased dramatically (100% for German shepherds, 600% for Great Danes, 1,000% for St. Bernards...
...that same period the bite rate doubled. Beck estimates the number of dog bites in the U.S. each year at 1 million, the annual cost of managing the problem at $50 million. There are no federal, state or municipal laws regulating breeding, although there are many statutes on humane treatment. But odds are that canine affairs will now receive closer attention. Last April a poll by Nation's Cities magazine showed 60.6% of U.S. mayors reporting that animal problems lead the list of urban complaints-with traffic in second place and crime in a distant eighth...
...workers can be exploited by his supposed leaders. It is a common knowledge in Argentina that, beginning with the rule of Gen. Juan D. Peron in 1945, when workers received a wide array of economic and social benefits, trade unions became increasingly conservative until they were virtually at the beck and call of the government. Throughout the spectacularly popular decade of Peron's regime, and throughout the military rule that followed, Argentine workers lost their autonomous leaders, many of whom made personal fortunes through their secret agreements with frightened employers searching for a tamed workforce. Roberto Barrera could...