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...campaign against local polluters-capping spewing chimneys in the dead of night, plugging sewage outlets of illegal polluters. But unlike the Eco-Commandos and the Fox, contestants had not necessarily acted out their ideas; all they were asked to suggest were projects that caused no serious harm. In fact, of all the entries, published this week in a paperback book, by far the most violent comes from a fourth-grade class in Wilmette, Ill.: "Kidnap the presidents of the big car companies and put them in a room and for 30 seconds turn their car pollution on them...
...current dock strike, the Attorney General contended that the failure of 200 Chicago longshoremen to load $75 million worth of corn and soybeans for export imperiled the national economy. Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz found the Government's case for an injunction "far less reasoned" than required. "Some harm or threat of injury is regrettably a natural, indispensable element of any strike," he said in the first denial ever of a Taft-Hartley cooling-off injunction. "However, it is the very essence of the only weapon labor can aim at management. Corn and soybeans are not airplane parts...
...suit other than an auto accident or divorce case. But without their knowledge, a great many Americans are now becoming silent plaintiffs in a powerful and increasingly common type of litigation, the "class action," in which one or more individuals speak for a large group that has suffered similar harm or faces a mutual threat...
...have helped raise the issues in the Harvard community. Although their actions are clearly not punishable under any rational and equitable system, the two groups have at times lapsed into personal attacks and quoted Herrnstein out of context. But by publicizing the uncertainty of the ideas and the potential harm of their implications, SDS and UAG have performed a service...
...Palais, published the case in toto. Soon the story of Ismaël was being publicized by the press, radio and TV. Bringing a $1,000 damage suit against the venerable Gazette, Ismael asserted: "The court's diploma of virility, reproduced in the press, has done me great harm." The Gazette's lawyer asked: "What's he complaining about? His barbershop is never empty any more. Men envy him, and women admire...