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...times. "We have raised the right to be ugly to the level of the Bill of Rights," he told a congressional subcommittee. "By the millions, American tourists have gone to Europe to walk the streets of ancient cities, to linger by a glorious fountain, to rest on a piazza bench and watch the world...
...Court of King's Bench decision in London in favor of a runaway slave, James Somerset, brought slavery to a virtual end in England. But in the Colonies, real moves against slavery have been few. Three years ago, a group of slaves in Massachusetts petitioned the General Court to be free of bondage. Another group applied to the legislature, asking that they be allowed to work for themselves one day a week and so buy their freedom. No one answered the appeals. Though the Massachusetts legislature has been offered various bills abolishing the slave trade, all have been defeated...
Agreements were reached, then shattered. Cease-fires came and went in giddy sequence. Events that were seen as possible bench marks on the way to peace−the initial Syrian intervention, the early election of a new President−turned into bad dreams amid ceasefire violations and Byzantine arguments among feudalistic politicians...
...Thin Bench. Most damaging to Carter's campaign was the setback in Oregon, where he had lost a once comfortable lead in the closing weeks to Church. Carter's Oregon campaign manager, Tom Mackey, an advance man for Robert Kennedy in 1968, ascribed the loss to insufficient campaigning and battle fatigue among the staffers caused by Carter's strategy of entering every primary except West Virginia's. Said Mackey: "I had the feeling that our people were running out of gas. With Bobby, the bench was very strong. The Carter cadre has always been thin. That...
...trigger a wild on-field brawl-and bloody fights in the stands. One result: Pitcher Bill Lee was so severely hurt that he may be out for the rest of the season. At an Atlanta Braves-Houston Astros game, a controversial first-base call brought the entire Braves bench storming onto the field. The men in blue were forced to leave the stadium with other men in blue-a police escort. In perhaps the ugliest confrontation of this strange young season, Cardinal Pitcher Lynn McGlothen readily forgave himself after hitting two New York Met batters. Proclaimed McGlothen: "If a pitcher...