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There is, of course, the usual danger of getting nibbled to death by puns: "Haul up your socks and sintillate"; "Tending a cemetery is a grave responsibility." "It Midas well be spring," says a man fixing his car muffler. The book's conspicuous title can have a number of meanings, all socially redeemed because the line is Shakespeare's ("The bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon," Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4). But there are no star-crossed lovers, only heavenly bodies tumbling from orbit to bounce in the bed of Eddie Teeters...
...movement at Brown University, a group of Santa Cruz students is sponsoring a measure asking the school administration in stock suicide pills for use in the event of a nuclear attack. The measure, sponsored by the Student Alliance for Fallout Emergency, or SAFE, also asks for on campus mass grave sites so irradiated bodies can be quickly disposed. Although Santa Cruz Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer opposes the measure with the claim that "such actions cannot be the mission of a university," backers say that win or lose, "just the fact that people are talking and thinking about [the meaning of nuclear...
...Nicaragua concerning the Contadora proposal. I am going to Nicaragua to see what possibilities there are for a national dialogue that would permit the incorporation of opposition groups into (those sanctioned by Nicaragua's) new constitution. Such a dialogue is very difficult, but Nicaragua finds itself in a very grave economic situation. The Inter-American Development Bank is considering a Nicaraguan application for resources; the U.S. has opposed the request. We feel it should be approved...
...rally has been very orderly and appropriate, and I think it's appropriate that the University and College preserve the rights of the members of our community to express themselves on grave and important matters like apartheid in South Africa," said Assistant Dean of the College Mack I. Davis...
...John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...