Word: generall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency, a travel agency and a book-publishing firm that sell services to the church. At a receivership hearing in Los Angeles last week, Rader won the right to look at his records -but only with the permission of a court-appointed official. Says Deputy State Attorney General Lawrence Tapper: "We've termed it letting the wolf inside the chicken coop." But the court rejected Rader's claim it is unconstitutional for the state to interfere in church business...
Lucrative business, this, largely because there is almost no overhead, no rent, and, usually, no taxes. New York police estimate that a general-merchandise peddler makes an average of $15,000 a year; some boast of taking in $1,000 a day. Lobsang Khendup, 46, an enterprising wood-crafter in San Francisco, supports a wife and three sons on annual street sales of $22,000. "What better job is there?" asks Ellie Cohen, 29, who sells her own home-baked goods in Miami in the whiter and in Portsmouth, N.H., in the summer. " work for myself. If I get tired...
West's neatest trick, though, is reserved for the end. One of the things that Spada demands, as the price for not poisoning mankind, is permission to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. In real life, of course, he could do so and no one would notice, but West ignores this for the sake of his artifice. The resulting episode is thus one of the neatest bits of whimsical invention since A.A. Milne created the heffalump...
...allowed five George Washington University law students to oppose a railroad-rate surcharge. Why? Because, the students argued, the surcharge would increase the cost of recyclable goods and thus mean more beer cans littering public parks. (They lost.) Conservatives like Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, who was U.S. Solicitor General during the Nixon Administration, understandably worry that "democratic government gets pushed back and back, as judicial government takes over...
...help in the process. More importantly, House Committees should send representatives to insure that we students are represented when and if a case is brought before the Committee. Granted, there have not been many cases in the last few years. But this should serve to show the general trend in the students. Furthermore, most of the students do not even know what the CRR is or does. Students are not opposed to the CRR as you would have us believe. As a matter of fact, the poll that the Freshman Council took of its constituents showed that the class favored...