Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General Griffin Bell to demand that the Justice Department take a "new look at evidence in the case" and to press for a new trial. Whether Ray receives it may depend on the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This week, the panel is scheduled to hear testimony from Ray and a number of black leaders...
...schoolteachers who organized to buy land and build homes, has also run into trouble. Now much of their land too has been restricted by the Israelis. Says Ahmad Thalji, a retired schoolteacher: "I bought one dunam 20 years ago. Now I am told I cannot build a house. I hear people always speaking about human rights. Where are the human rights in this injustice...
FRIDAY NIGHT: He could hear them yelling "Slide! Slide!" Home plate was only a few feet away. So what if he hadn't played softball since college 20 years ago? So what if he now weighed 275 Ibs. ? He could do it. He knew he could. He slid ... They carried him off the field...
...with the wallop of a freight train. Mann released the ratchet on the reel to let the fish run. Then, without warning, the line slackened. The broadbill was streaking to the surface. He rose out of the water and fell back with a splash we could hear but not see. The glow of the Cyalume marked him 100 yds. to starboard. We could detect only the eerie green light, which now began tearing across the inky water and around our stern. The swordfish was encircling the boat with line. Mann cranked furiously on the reel, trying to take up slack...
This is exactly what many humanists want to hear. Some of the Ph.D.'s plan to take hard-core business jobs, with the understanding that they will have to pick up technical skills. Others hope to bring their special perspectives to corporate decision making. "I'm interested in a company's social responsibility to its employees, its stockholders and the community," says one woman who still has a high school teaching...