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...lost most of their reading vision by looking straight at the sun. Under LSD they could do this for three or four minutes, hardly squinting and feeling no pain, so their eyes were wide open to the sun's infra-red rays, and the macula, the point of clearest vision in the retina, was badly burned. There is no effective treatment. Explained one boy: "I was holding a religious conversation with...
Moments before adopting the new policy, the Committee voted down an amendment to strike the qualifying phrase. Committeeman Francis H. Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, and author of the amendment argued that the policy would be clearest and most effective if the Committee did not try assert any power to censor controversial speakers...
Brother Jeff. Cool it was. In Grenada (pop. 7,914), a white supremacist stronghold that hitherto had been thought to be too tough for civil rights workers to crack, the Governor's dic tum received its clearest vindication. "We want Brother Jefferson Davis to know that the South he represented will never rise again," proclaimed Robert Green, 32, a march leader, as he stood astride the Davis memorial in the town square. "We want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With...
None dared. Her words were more than mere defiance of party snipers. Most political experts agreed that her fiery speech was the clearest indication yet that she intends to continue as Prime Minister after next February's general election. When she was selected last January to succeed Lai Bahadur Shastri, some members of the Congress Party supported her on the theory that she would be the best national figure to lead the party into the elections. After that, they reckoned, she could be shelved in favor of another candidate...
...Although I personally disagree with many of its attitudes," says Fairlie, "the Post appears to me always to offer the clearest rational defense of them that is possible. It is one of the few important papers in the U.S. which is not frightened of the power which America now holds, but continues to examine every exercise of that power...