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...intent is to register voters favorable to union-backed candidates. Are the costs of such undertakings to be included in the spending limitations imposed on those candidates? And what about the millions of brochures, flyers and house organs distributed at great cost by both unions and trade associations? They heap praise on Candidate Y, the friend of the drug industry, or Candidate X, labor's advocate in Washington. Are such publications part of a campaign? Or are they instruments of free speech? It is doubtful that any law could draw the line...
...Trang when he stumbled upon a fountain pen. Shouting to his friends, he placed the pen in his mouth and bit into it; it turned out to be a Chinese-made plastique bomb that destroyed half his face. Similarly, a 15-year-old named An was raiding a garbage heap at the U.S. airbase at Tuy Hoa when he set off a mine that blew off both his legs...
...Isle Park and the banks of the Charles River in Boston sported colorful curtains of kites over the Easter weekend. Kent State students were playing baseball last week on the green where their fatal confrontation with the National Guard took place nearly a year ago. Reprieved from the junk heap, the Delta Queen, last of the overnight, stern-wheel Mississippi riverboats, started a new "maiden" voyage to Cincinnati last week. All around the land Americans felt a sense of freshness and renewal. Perhaps nothing has changed, but spring makes it seem as though...
...biggest benefit of rejasing is that virtually indestructible objects never reach the garbage heap. The first grade at the Driscoll School in Brookline, Mass., for example, is building a sculpture from Clorox bottles, makeup cases and other plastic objects. "It is an excellent material for outdoor use," says Teacher Mrs. Donald Shelby, "for the same reason that it is difficult to recycle." Whatever all this says about the future of art, it surely proves that in an ecology-minded era, one man's trash is another's treasure...
...buyer of a convertible car used to type himself as a free-spending sport. Today he types himself as a nostalgic eccentric. Once a symbol of status and romance, the convertible is well on its way to joining tail fins on the scrap heap. They account for only 1.5% of 1971-model sales, down from 1.6% in the 1970 model year and a peak 6.7% in 1963. The trend is toward an even lower percentage; American Motors stopped making cars with roll-down tops in 1968, and Ford may do the same in the next model year, which begins this...