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Dressed in native blanket and conical straw hat, he galloped about his Maryland-size realm on a shaggy pony, enlisting citizens' support in his bid for more control of Lesotho's domestic and foreign policies. Not surprisingly, such politicking alarmed Premier Chief Leabua Jonathan, who saw in the royal actions a plot to overthrow the new constitutional government...
Losing Leverage. Another argument against blanket withdrawal of investments is raised by Wichita Lawyer William Thompson, the new Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church. He contends that by taking funds out of a bank or selling shares in a company whose policies they may not approve, the churches lose their leverage to change the minds of corporation officials...
...There are 20 different kinds of polls, some with excellent records and some with poor. Your blanket indictment [Dec. 16] fails to make this important point...
...times that of the sun), and the star was radiating with inexplicable intensity at the longest wave lengths. On the theory that something was obscuring the visible light, Low asked Smith to help work out a mathematical model of a bright, hot star that was surrounded by a thick blanket of gas and dust...
...take their place, setting up convection currents that feed the blaze. In the weightlessness of space flight, the scientists discovered, there is no reason for the combustion products to rise. Unless they are disturbed by an artificial draft they hover around the burning object, quickly forming a blanket that excludes oxygen and suffocates the flames...