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...controversy. Shoppers charge that many discount stores are dirty and slack on service. The Federal Trade Commission claims that some cut-rate items promoted by A. & P. stores are not available at the advertised price when customers try to buy them. A. & P must now either agree to a consent order to correct its practices or risk a formal complaint from the FTC. Meanwhile, complaints are clanking in from other chains, which are striving to meet A. & P.'s posted prices. Bohack President Joseph Binder fumes: "A. & P. is helping to place the supermarket business into a tailspin. That...
...Christian Boys' Brigade was outraged. The British Scouts Association bristled. Minds were boggled, said London's Daily Telegraph, "in every Anglican home." The cause of the outcry was a speech by Dr. John Robinson, formerly the Anglican Bishop of Woolrich. The age of consent in sexual relations, he said, should be lowered from 16 to 14. The change, the bishop argued, would make teen-agers more rather than less responsible for their actions, and it would facilitate counseling by removing the onus of criminality. Robinson seemed unperturbed by the fuss over his speech. As the author...
...involvement in Indochina and the time never existed when our people were consulted by or even informed of our government's actions there. Troops are sent or withdrawn, bombs are dropped, puppet governments are overthrown or propped up, over one million people are murdered: all without the advice or consent of the American people. A little group of men in the White House and the Pentagon sit behind mahogany desks and decree who shall live and who shall...
...speed limit from 10 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h. and scrapping the ordinance regulating bowling alleys (there is not now, nor has there ever been, a bowling alley in Ayrshire). He has even offered to perform a marriage-although he himself could not be married without his father's consent. Mayor Smith is 19 years...
...operation, which cuts a narrow slit through the frontal lobes of the brain, is used to control "hyperactive" children and those who suffer from anxiety, tension, and overt aggressiveness. It can be performed only after the patient gives his consent, and produces a blunting effect on the individual's behavior...