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...Thundering Herd...
...rejected compulsion; instead, it made the rescuer responsible for mishaps caused by his negligence. Thus in 1966 a Georgia court ruled that the owner of a private swimming pool had no duty to rescue a drowning child. On the other hand, in 1962 a Wyoming traveler who tried to herd some cattle off the road to avoid an accident was held liable for damages when the animals ran around a bend and collided with an oncoming...
...Kashmir sparked three months of turmoil throughout India and East Pakistan. Two years ago, 1,000 Indians were dead and 30,000 homeless after a week of rioting that followed an incident in the modern industrial city of Ahmedabad. The provocation: a procession of Moslems had collided with a herd of sacred cows being led through the streets by a group of Indian sadhus (holy...
...From the start it had been an uphill fight for the U.S., which had to dispel suspicions that Washington was in fact willing to see its dual-representation plan go down to defeat, the better to ensure a good reception for Richard Nixon in Peking. To be sure, the herd of U.S. diplomats in New York City last week looked like men who wanted to win. One U.N. guard was astonished to find lobbying under way in the Delegates Lounge at 9 a.m. one day last week. "There in one corner sat an American working over some African," he marveled...
...sense, they did. Nearly two weeks after union printing presses started to grind out blistering attacks on the President's program, a majority of union members questioned around the nation by TIME correspondents seemed to agree with Atlanta Hod Carrier W.C. Herd: "Something had to be done. If this holds prices down, it's bound to help." Many expressed no bitterness at the prospect of living on their current wages for 90 days. Says New York Policeman Jim Fitzpatrick, whose union has been negotiating with the city for a new contract in place of the expired one for eight months...