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...Baptists, besides declaring the case an attempt at character defamation, emphatically contend that they are the sole judges of the moral and spiritual qualifications of their ministers. To underscore its ire, the convention has announced that it will send no more chaplains to the Navy until the Government formally recognizes its claim...
What are the chances of anyone's demanding, and receiving, a 530% raise these days? Not too good-especially when there are Government wage guidelines and a boss like Oakland A's Owner Charles Finley to contend with. Not too good-unless your name is Vida Blue, who last week mounted one of the more imaginative counterattacks in the history of baseball salary disputes. After months of futile negotiations with Finley and a brief disappearance, the 22-year-old pitching star emerged in Oakland to tell a disbelieving news conference that he was retiring to sell bathroom...
Both the California and Washington suits contend that the parallel induction rule was violated when C.O.s were ordered for work while no men classified 1-A or 1-AO were being inducted...
...prevailed-namely, that the heights of creation are inaccessible to women, whose misfortune it is to possess something called a "feminine sensibility." This is largely a fantasy, akin to the one found in literature (see BOOKS). But every woman artist at work today still has to contend with...
Prejudice. The feminists, like many black scholars, reject the notion of "value-free" scholarship that rises above prejudice. Preconceptions and unexamined assumptions are widespread in education, they contend, and must be refuted by an adversary process. Cornell's Joanna Russ is often asked: "Why don't you present the other side?" Her reply: "The other side is all around us." Or, as Buffalo's Ann Scott says of John Milton: "Nobody who is such a great writer has a right to be such a damn...