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...street people"-estimates range from 5,000 to 100,000, plus 50,000 conventioneers-scares many residents. Memories of the bloody riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago have made the graying Miami Beach citizens (median age: 65) more than a little jittery. Fortunately, the coolest heads belong to those most directly involved in keeping the peace. The coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit of cooperation is matched...
Even as President Nixon was announcing the mining of North Vietnamese ports, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., George Bush, moved to inform the Security Council. According to prescribed protocol, such formal notification is made to the Council president, but this month that regularly rotated position happens to belong to the U.S. representative, namely Bush. Bush ceremonially addressed his letter and then delivered it to himself, informing himself that the U.S. had a legal right to take action under the U.N. Charter's doctrine of "collective self-defense...
...radio is a "hot" medium, involving more listener participation to complete its communication than such "cool" media as films or TV. "The people feel they possess you," says Ellen Morphonios Rowe, a criminal court judge in Miami who runs a late-night show on WKAT. "They really feel you belong to them...
Epps' difficulty in understanding the film is revealed, I think, in his reference to the local ruffians as "subhuman yokels" and "brutes"--as though the evil they embody couldn't belong to fully human persons. But the facts are otherwise, and situations may arise in which one's only recourse in confronting such persons is to kill them. Kenneth I. Winston...
Once this was achieved, the reasoning went, the ponderous gates of Harvard's male tradition would be flung wide open, and visionaries saw the impending merger as a way in which the Harvard experience would finally belong as much to women as it did to men, with coeducational housing and equal admissions the seemingly inevitable result of the dissolution of Radcliffe as a separate entity...