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...fix guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were...
...brought the state to the verge of bankruptcy. Elected in a landslide that gave the Democrats control of both houses of the legislature for the first time in 32 years, Shapp set out to put the state in financial order-only to find himself in a worse fix than the Republicans. By last week, Pennsylvania had edged even closer to bankruptcy. Shapp's administration was spending $2,000,000 more each day than the state could afford...
...stated time-she specifies an "English hour," or sometimes in Latin America, an "American hour." The Russians are equally relaxed about time. In the Middle East, an invitation often does not even include the time, but can be "Come for the evening." For the host or hostess to fix a minute or even an hour implies that the guest is not wanted before then, an unforgivable breach of hospitality...
...home it is psychic raiment that she lacks. She cannot sleep and will not wash. She longs to write a novel ("That would fix a lot of people"), but cannot write a paragraph. Her mother drives her crazy simply by living in the same house. With the awful logic of the mad, she considers and rejects any amelioration of her condition; she is under a "glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air." Rescued from a suicide attempt, she starts the long process of mental repair in an asylum...
...like President Anwar Sadat. In the Land of the Sphinx, he looms human just like you and me. I feel confident that he will fix his priorities right. For much too long, these were lost in the haze of grandeur and gun smoke. Now the interest of his people will come first. The abatement of Russian infiltration into the heart of the Arab world will be the next task. And if peace with Israel will mean putting a stop to 20 years of crippling war, he will...