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...black students greeted the announcement with enthusiasm. "We have gotten what we came for today. It's a hopeful sign," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, spokesman for the black students, said...
Many churchmen are reluctant to give a definite yes or no to marijuana, on the grounds that the medical evidence as to its harmfulness is incomplete. On the other hand, Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher of Massachusetts' Episcopal Theological School, the nation's leading exponent of situation ethics, argues that "the morality of pot depends on circumstances. Social drinking is not immoral, social smoking is not immoral, social pot is not immoral-unless they are used to excess...
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...buyers to step up their efforts. Last week Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., which is about one-sixth as big as Western Union, made a better bid. After marathon negotiations in New York and Washington between Chairman-President Russell W. McFall of Western Union and Founder-Chairman Fletcher Jones of Computer Sciences, the two men agreed to recommend a merger to shareholders. In an exchange of stock worth $350 million, Western Union will become a part of nine-year-old Computer Sciences. Jones pointed out that his company and Western Union had been working with each other...
...policyholder, U. L. Fletcher, injured his back three years ago on the job lifting a 361-lb. bale of scrap rubber. He had a $15,000 disability policy with Western National Life Insurance Co. of Texas, and at first the company agreed to pay him $150 a month for at least two years. Then it reversed itself and stopped payments on grounds that his injury was really an illness. Wearing a brace, Korean War Veteran Fletcher went to court to ask for $50,000 as compensation and $1,000,000 in punitive damages under the outrage law. The jury...