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Danehy's action led the Cambridge Chronicle to publish an unusually strong editorial criticizing city leaders for making "nothing but platitudes and meaningless blanket statements." The paper also called Danehy's order "wholly unconstructive, thoughtless, and inflammatory" and asserted that the city badly needs more minority group representation...
...results, based on the emissions of the Concorde, showed that supersonic exhaust discharges in the general latitude of Paris and New York would deplete ozone by a risky 16% in the Northern Hemisphere. The ozone blanket would also be thinned significantly in the Southern Hemisphere, where the computer had assumed no SST flights...
...veterans warmly applauded Ford's announcement that he had nominated Richard Roudebush, a former V.F.W. national commander and ex-Representative from Indiana, as Administrator of Veterans Affairs. The audience cheered and clapped loudly as Ford departed from his bland prepared text and declared that "unconditional, blanket amnesty for anyone who illegally evaded or fled military service is wrong." But the veterans sat in shocked silence as Ford went on to say that he wanted the deserters and draft dodgers who fled abroad during the Viet Nam War "to come home if they want to work their way back." Pledging...
...hospitals or have been sent there by authorities have attempted suicide. As many as 26% of the veterans who served in Viet Nam have experimented with heroin and other drugs. So broad are the problems of this troubled minority of the Vietvets that VA authorities have given a blanket name to them: post-Viet Nam psychiatric syndrome (PVNPS...
...Harvard fan is the undergrad, with his date from Pine Manor who he is taking to the game. He wears a tweed jacket over a sweater to the stadium, and brings a blanket to sit on and a thermos of milk punch or a flask to stay warm...