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...counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed out of their classrooms. What triggered the turmoil in West Virginia was not the usual labor dispute, but subject matter and language in public school textbooks that outraged the state's conservative Christian American Parents Association...
Today Wright is undoubtedly the most controversial judge in New York, and the continuing storm over many of his decisions has catapulted him into a national prominence unique for a municipal judge. The furor centers on the issue of bail. Wright contends that the present system of administering bail in American courts is unjust to the poor, specifically to blacks and other minority groups. He has made himself a one man force for bail reform, by invariably setting low bail for defendants of limited financial means who are arraigned before him. In a few widely publicized cases, such defendants have...
...charges or at least delay their trial because of all the adverse publicity generated by the furor over the Nixon pardon. Also as expected, Sirica denied the motions. There may be further appeals, but the trial is now scheduled to begin...
...leniency, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, had been postponed "indefinitely." The explanation was that Ford had not had time to complete his plans, which were turning out to be "more complex" than had been expected. The widespread assumption was that he did not want to create a new furor by applying stiff conditions to the war objectors' amnesty when he had just given Nixon a "full, free and absolute" pardon. Despite the vast differences between the two issues, they had become practically and politically linked. That fact of life was recognized by the White House in scheduling a Ford...
...that it did not significantly affect the long-term giving patterns of more than a few alumni. The current discussion of sex ratios among the undergraduate population, while a topic of concern for many alumni--especially those with sons nearing college age--does not appear to have created a furor, Schuyler Hollingsworth '40, the new assistant secretary to the Corporation, says. "So far the discussion of sex ratios haven't caused the storm that the events of 1969 caused. As director of the Harvard College Fund in 1969, I spent an inordinate amount of time answering complaint letters. I never...