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...editorial writer for the Boston Globe, terms "a paradoxical divergence." But the fear of McCarthy did have a "deadening effect" on any political initiative, Walter A. Carrington '52, one of four blacks in the class and the first black president of the Harvard Liberal Students Association, then the largest political organization on campus, recalls...
...Franken, a promoter who stages two of the indoor season's largest California meets, admits that appearance fees are paid, often in a lump sum to managers of track clubs, who then distribute the cash among members. Asks Franken: "What's wrong with getting paid for doing something well...
...Mafia makes so much money that it ought to rank first in the FORTUNE annual directory of the 500 largest U.S. industrial corporations...
Cordials, too, are increasingly popular. Sales of Seagram's Leroux liqueurs in 50 flavors are growing at a rate of 7%. The company's imported labels -Vandermint, Sabra-are also doing nicely. Hiram Walker, one of the largest sellers of liqueurs in the U.S., came out last year with its 30th flavor-Swiss chocolate almond. A subsidiary of Jack Daniel Distillery markets 27 flavors of Bols liqueurs; National Distillers' De Kuyper collection has 39 flavors...
...bomb. Among others, researchers at Los Alamos (N. Mex.) Scientific Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore lab have achieved fusion in laser experiments with the pellets. More impressive reactions may occur in late 1977, when scientists at Lawrence Livermore complete work on the $25 million Shiva, the world's largest and most powerful laser. On the other hand, experts at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque are pinning their hopes for achieving fusion on the descendants of an already operating machine called Proto, which fires a beam of electrons at the pellet, zapping it with a jolt equal to 8 trillion watts...