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...15th Coalition, an association of seven local radical groups, has called for a "peaceful, legal, non-obstructive picket line" at the entrance to Brandeis in protest of what it calls Israel's "arrogance and total disregard for human life...
...behold, but he is crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance; Mario Bava likes to bring on the Iron Maiden as a particularly personal touch. Here, as always, he makes appropriately ghastly...
...Merhige handed down a sharply worded ruling that found the state's prison officials guilty of "grave disregard of constitutional guarantees." This time he cited specific illegal actions: bread-and-water diets, arbitrary use of tear gas, extended periods of solitary confinement, placing prisoners naked in a hot, roach-infested cell, and taping, chaining or handcuffing inmates to cell bars. The monetary award reflected the loss of prison pay through unconstitutional solitary confinement, plus what Merhige called "reasonable sums for pain and suffering...
Nixon has been ruminating to his visitors more than ever about the need to disregard the fluctuations of affection from the media, Congress and even the voters. He has talked about his own days of harassment as a young Congressman when he traveled from emotional peak to valley with the morning headlines, of the deep depression brought on by Herblock's biting cartoons during his vice-presidential terms. "Don't let that happen to you," he told his people...
...games to further their own ends. And even more like revolutionaries, they have not hesitated to break the rules of these games when it has suited their ends. They have not been professors at Harvard--they have been playing "the professor game," and their cynicism has led them to disregard University regulations and standards of good faith. They have violated the one condition Harvard placed upon their work; that they not use undergraduates as subjects for drug experiments...