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...five-cent deposit on most soda and beer cans and bottles. Notwithstanding the aggressive advertising campaign the container interests have waged against the bill, using what amounts to scare tactics, it would be a significant step toward reducing the litter of metal and glass that is beginning to blanket the landscape...
...regime that imposes a nation-wide policy of apartheid, the racial segregation of South Africa's four million whites, 18 million blacks and 2.3 million coloureds (people of mixed racial ancestry)--can arbitrarily determine when The Mail has stepped out of bounds, and in some areas can demand a blanket right censor...
...workers, however, voted to demand that the Brown administration grant a "blanket amnesty" to all 11 students arrested for blocking a delivery truck during a pro-strike demonstration near the university's main dining hall Thursday...
...Mime Theater November 19-21. A local train pulls out of a dungeon under Porter Square around 6:30 giving you more time than you want to see the Brandeis campus before the show. After the performance there's no train back after past 11, so take a warm blanket if it's cold...
...seems that after two years of tinkering, the unwieldy components of the desegregation plan have fallen workably, if not neatly, into place. The troopers, the new administrators, the shuffled administrators, the elected parent and student councils, all have had a full summer to prepare. Still, imposing this "blanket" program citywide has been somewhat like pulling an actual blanket over the sheets to make a bed. Straighten a section and a wrinkle appears there; soothe a ten mile-square district here and a minor outburts erupts there. Wednesday, in Charlestown, white youths pelted troopers and new, bussed arrivals, then boycotted classes...