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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision, said the court, was contradictory and "inconsistent." Baseball might be a monopoly, but it is a nationwide monopoly; therefore Wisconsin is "powerless" to make the sport subject to its state antitrust law. Besides, continued the Supreme Court, to order the Braves back from Atlanta would be to correct one ill with another: "such an outcome would maintain a monopoly at the expense of Atlanta...
...deacons rather than priests sometimes celebrated the Eucharist. Even today laymen can validly baptize when no priest is around. Thus, concludes Van Beeck, Protestant clergymen may well be, from a Catholic viewpoint, "extraordinary ministers" of the sacraments for their own churches, whose good faith, sound doctrine, and correct spiritual intentions fulfill the essential conditions for validity...
...minutes into the maneuver, Young realized that he had overthrust and was headed into an orbit aiming him several miles behind and above the Agena. Jamming his control stick down, Young dived the spacecraft in a brute-force attempt to get back on the correct trajectory. He failed, but finally did manage to swerve the spacecraft into a nearly normal "buttonhook" rendezvous. Though his quick thinking saved the maneuver, the incident burned up 268 more lbs. of precious propellant than mission plans had anticipated...
...footprints in the form of lotus blossoms. A 10th century emperor of China, delighted by the tale, commanded one of his concubines to bind her feet in a faunlike configuration and dance among the petals of a giant golden lotus. The emperor's concubine, if Chinese tradition is correct, was the Judas deer who led millions of Chinese women down a thousand-year trail of torture. The cruel custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution of 1911. After that, it disappeared so rapidly that no Western sociologist...
...author of this book read an article in Kommunist, an official Communist Party periodical published in Moscow, deploring the fact that the party structure had never been thoroughly analyzed in print. Then and there, Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov decided to correct the oversight. The result will not reap any literary honors, for it is heavy-footed. And, as Avtorkhanov himself admits, the book will not win the Lenin Peace Prize either. Em bedded in its dense pages is the conviction that the free world can never get along with Communist Russia...