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...color of their skin. None were in the immediate vicinity of University Hall; one in particular who was standing on the steps of Mathews Hall was clubbed repeatedly by a policeman who had lost his original quarry. Let this be clear: we will no longer tolerate these threats, implicit and explicit, upon our lives...
...would-be broadcasters. Well aware of the station owners' fears, Pastore has made it clear that he opposes any "sword of Damocles over the heads of broadcasters at renewal time"-giving a broad hint that he might favor legislation to change FCC procedures and facilitate license renewals. One implicit condition: that local stations support his beefed-up Television Code...
...peril implicit in a "guided democracy" is that the guide eventually has to depart. In the view of his critics, nothing has so become Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan's autocratic leadership as his leaving of it. In so doing, Ayub has promised to restore universal suffrage and return Pakistan to the parliamentary system in a general election to be held near the end of the year. After a decade of one-man rule, the soldierly Ayub has announced his "irrevocable decision" to step aside at that point, leaving to a discordant array of opposition politicians the task...
...councillors to retain office. Under Cambridge's proportional representation system of elections, a relatively small, but concentrated number of votes can swing an election. Given the City's poor record on constructing low-income housing in recent years, an organizing campaign for more low-income housing--with an implicit threat of action at the polls--might prove remarkably efficient in spurring the City Council to more vigorous support for housing...
That people exercise and warm up before a rehearsal does not seem very odd. Athletes do it all the time. But implicit in the kinds of exercises Cooper's cast has been doing is a concept of acting very different from what has often been common in the past. Perhaps it can best be called "gut" acting...