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...seems impossible to meet. Sixty percent of the public and leaders are willing to support him whether he ends the war or not as long as he gets American troops out of Viet Nam. A surprising 52% of the public would be willing to support him in one last-ditch attempt to gain a military victory; 53% of the leaders would oppose such a move. Sixty percent of the leaders and 67% of the public said that they would oppose him if the Communists took over the South Vietnamese government. The fact that a plurality of both public and leaders...
...last ditch efforts of two Allston families to delay eviction from their homes failed in Washington yesterday, when neither the Supreme Court nor officials from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would authorize an injunction preventing evictions which the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has scheduled for today...
Three days later, Karen Beineman's nude body was discovered in a roadside ditch west of Ann Arbor. She had been stran gled and so brutally battered that fin gerprints were needed to identify...
...FIGHT over rent control for Cambridge waged around City Hall during the past few weeks has been one of the most emotionally charged disputes ever to take place in the City's politics. Especially for its proponents, rent control came to be a symbolic showdown, a last ditch struggle against the forces which have been inexorably transforming the Cambridge they have known into a new City--one which they are best regard suspiciously...
...extent that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely the mystifying apparatus of Crusoe's games. At last, Crusoe realizes that Friday's instincts may be more sensible than his own. He abandons his bookkeeping system of morality, adopts Friday's formless sun worship and lives in harmony with his friend...