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Intellectual pursuits: Reading is my violent passion. I read everything and remember nothing. Moving to larger quarters to accommodate my ever-growing library. I am very much interested in modern painting (figurative and abstract) and in chamber music (except dedacophoni...
...voted for the Riverside resolution. Councilors Crane and Sullivan voted against it, and Councilors Danehy, Mahoney and Monterief voted "present." Barbara Ackerman was absent, but her vote would not have influenced the outcome, since a majority of the nine-member Council must support any motion before it passes the chamber...
...appeal and arbitration, whereby the same body that made the original decision selects the body to hear a challenge to that decision; elimination of any meaningful vestige of protection to the appellant by denying him any voice or representation on that appeals committee; establishment of rules calling for star-chamber hearings and a confidential final report; all capped by a procedure which calls for the same man who made the original decision to have sole and full responsibility for receiving and disposing of the review committee's recommendations...
...were separated, in addition to undergoing the preliminary mineralogical examination, they were put through an exhaustive series of tests to ensure that they carried no organisms which might be harmful to man. During this time the samples were in complete isolation. Although there have been numerous incidents of isolation chamber leakage, most have been minor. The one major leak occurred during the quarantine of the Apollo 12 samples and required Frondel to enter quarantine for two weeks himself. Failure to find the lunar samples biologically dangerous has led to the quarantine being abandoned...
KING'S personal reporting, of course, is always blended in to the larger framework: the rich social detail and history of his generation and environments. Interwoven with the confessions are the harsh facts of the repressive policies of the pre-Korea army he served in, the small town Chamber-of-Commerce-controlled newspapers he worked for, the college he briefly attended, the government he eventually became a part of. It was only as an administrative assistant to a couple of Texas congressmen that King completed his development as a civil rights liberal. In the Nation's Capital, he came across...