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With that touch of bravado, Andrew Young last week announced that he had resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Jimmy Carter, expressing "deep regret" in a handwritten letter, accepted the resignation of his close friend, fellow Southerner and one of his earliest and staunchest black political backers...
...which came only last November, the CRE ordered a Birmingham restaurant to stop refusing nonwhite customers. The CRE has also acted to help individuals like Sohan Singh Saggu, a Leeds factory worker of Asian ancestry who was forced to build a 6-ft. hardboard partition around his lathe because fellow workers were continually spitting on him. After the CRE intervened, the factory promised to halt the abuse, and Saggu took down his bleak little fort...
...wiry fellow hauling clubs on this summer's pro tour looked to be your average caddy: suede shoes, mottled spectacles, blue sun cap. But Paul Groll, 32, quietly claims to be an emissary from an ultrasecretive religious cult that is-quite literally-outlandish...
DIED. Jacob S. Potofsky, 84, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1946-72); in New York City. At 15, the Ukrainian-born Potofsky joined fellow pantsmakers in a strike that led to the founding of the Amalgamated by Sidney Hillman. As Hillman's protege, he helped to introduce such benefits as union banks, cooperative housing and health centers. Elected president upon Hillman's death, Potofsky became known as a masterful negotiator and a political activist...
...among scientists is that levels of the sex hormone testosterone drop after reaching a peak between ages 20 and 30, producing in effect a "male menopause." Now that theory has been challenged. In a study of 73 men, from 25 to 89 years old, Dr. S. Mitchell Harman and fellow researchers at the National Institute on Aging confirmed that there was decreasing sexual activity with advancing years but that levels of testosterone remained remarkably stable after age 30. These results conflict directly with other studies undertaken in the past five years. Harman thinks he knows the reason: the earlier work...