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...example, that they "forgot entirely that the confrontation was not created by police. The confrontation was created by people who charged police." There was no such charge by demonstrators during the most notorious confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At other times, the mayor magnified incidents to bolster his case. What would they do, he asked reporters, if someone tried to blind the man standing next to them by hurling oven cleaner? Though oven cleaner may have been used as a weapon by a few protesters, it was not the standard equipment that Daley and others implied...
Every day, in every way, Dennis Dale McLain, 24, works overtime to bolster his growing reputation as an antic oddball. But out of his restless energy he has also managed to build another kind of record entirely. When he is not cracking wise or acting up, Denny McLain throws baseballs for the Detroit Tigers. In a summer when pitchers are dominating the big-league game, Denny is, in fact, dominating the pitchers. A few fans still call him "Super Flake" or "Mighty Mouth," but the sneers stop when he steps up on the mound. This season, as never before, Denny...
...Onganía in Buenos Aires' Casa Rosada. The liberal-minded lieutenant general, often acting in concert with his brother Alvaro, Argentina's Ambassador to the U.S., had taken a major role in shaping the military government's "Argentine revolution." That program promised economic reform to bolster the country's flagging economy. But Alsogaray favored a more democratic political base for the revolution, while the stiff-necked President favored a tightly controlled corporate state and resisted all politically broadening efforts. The difference brought the two increasingly into public conflict...
Parade of Charades. When Justice antitrusters aired that view last April in a formal brief presented to the SEC, the regulatory authority had no choice but to delve into an issue that Wall Street thought had long since been settled by the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act. Hoping to bolster its stand against entirely abolishing fixed rates, the exchange this month offered instead to cut them by an average 19.5% on big deals (1,000 shares or more). That was primarily a defensive tactic, partly impelled by SEC proposals for slightly sharper fee reductions, starting with deals involving 400 shares...
...Guarducci first published her thesis that the bones were those of Peter in 1965-and was strongly attacked by other scholars. If Pope Paul had any fresh evidence to bolster her thesis, he did not cite it, and his announcement acknowledged that controversy over the claim is likely to continue. For one thing, the tomb itself dates from the 4th century. For another, many scientists would contend that it is impossible to establish the identity of the remains without some clue to Peter's physique, such as a bone deformation. Finally, while the bones unquestionably have a personal significance...