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...with rare exceptions the President has taken the lead in foreign and military policy while Congress has tagged along often grumbling. When an earlier activist President, James K. Polk sent troops into Mexico and then demanded that Congress approve his action, Senator John C. Calhoun declared that the deed "stripped Congress of the power of making war, and what was more and worse, it gave that power to every officer nay, to every subaltern commanding a corporal s guard. As before and since, the President got away with...
...proponent waved wire coat hangers, which can be used for deadly do-it-yourself abortions, the Senate followed suit. But the repeal effort proved unsuccessful-at least for this year. Rockefeller, who supported the liberal abortion law two years ago, vetoed the repeal bill, and matched the deed with a stinging message. "I do not believe it is right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society," he wrote. Repeal, he said, "would not end abortions, it would only end abortions under safe and supervised medical conditions. Every woman has the right to make...
...Angela's bond; the remainder came from a most remarkable source: Rodger McAfee, 33, a white farmer who put up 405 acres of his family's 1,100-acre cooperative farm near Fresno, Calif., as collateral for the remaining $100,000. McAfee said he had given the deed covering the property to the Communist Party's Northern California section a year ago for eventual bonding purposes. "I'm just a working man who agrees with the philosophy of Angela Davis," McAfee said. Then he left the Palo Alto jail to return home "because I have...
...homecoming was not pleasant. No sooner had word of his deed on Angela's behalf got out than his four school-age sons were expelled from school, ostensibly on the grounds that he no longer lived in the school district, but in fact, admitted the principal, "under tremendous pressure" from the community. He also got such vitriolic phone calls that he went out and bought a rifle...
...Yale graduate students asked him to design one for "the second American revolution." They had been inspired by the New Left's guru Herbert Marcuse, who, having seen Oldenburg's drawings, announced that "there is a way in which this kind of satire, or humor, can in deed kill. I think it would be one of the most bloodless means to effect a rad ical change." Oldenburg's response took the form of a vast red lipstick which telescoped up and down, stiff ening and softening, from Caterpillar tracks. It was polemical, a mixture of cosmetic, phallus...