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...denied equal access to a publicly owned facility, such as a park, swimming pool, hospital or library-but not a school-could file a complaint with the Attorney General. If the Attorney General decreed the individual unable to afford his own suit or in fear of physical or economic harm, the Attorney General could institute a civil suit to force state or local officials to desegregate such a facility...
Ultrasound's advantage comes clearest in the case of pregnant women. No one wants to subject them to X rays because of possible harm to mother and foetus. In Denver, Dr. Holmes's colleagues have measured the skull diameter of unborn babies accurately to within one-eighth of an inch in 95 of 100 cases. And there is no evidence that ultrasound, properly used, has any harmful effects even on such sensitive targets as the unborn child, the reproductive system, or the human...
This sort of mentality caused little harm 50 years ago, but it has been the core of a stubborn resistance to change that has caused much of British business to lag behind the rest of the industrialized world. Such is the outspoken concern in Britain today about how business is run that it is taking on the scope of a national debate. Said the Times of London: "The need for a managerial revolution is widely evident, but the cry seems to have been drowned by deluding murmurs of contentment from too many board rooms...
Marc A. Slotnick '64, former HCUA member and organiser of the sale, termed the Dean's decision an "unnecessary inconvenience." "I don't agree that a gathering would have caused any harm," he said, "especially in light of the cold, rainy weather and the fact that the sale was set for 6:30 p.m., a time when many students are eating dinner...
...Salinger has the covert support of State Assembly Speaker Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, perhaps the ablest politician in the state. Salinger's past association with Jack Kennedy is doing him no harm. He is slowly overcoming his image as a "carpetbagger" who was born in San Francisco but had not lived in California for seven years (he was a Virginia resident when he jumped into the Senate race). Occasionally, however, when the brass bands strike up California Here 1 Come or P.S. I Love You, a comic in the crowd suggests a rendition of Carry Me Back...