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This letter comes to you from the Manchester Armory in New Hampshire, where around 500 people, charged with criminal trespass for occupying the construction site of the Seabrook nuclear power plant, have been incarcerated since Monday morning, May 2. The Manchester group is the largest currently being held; other prisoners are at the Dover, Concord and Somersworth armories...
TIME should bone up on its ballistics. The "tiny" .22-cal. one-ounce slug referred to in your story, "New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22" [April 18], actually weighs in at approximately 40 grains or one-twelfth of an ounce. One-ounce slugs are usually reserved for the largest of African game and are not made for the bore of a .22 caliber...
...largest demonstrations this year--second only to the 500-person turnout that greeted Henry A. Kissinger '50 when he attended a conference on East Asia here last fall--100 students protested a conference sponsored by the DuBois Institute and the Committee on African Studies...
Humorous speeches often attract and move the largest numbers of people and by no means are to be frowned upon. Mark O'Donnell '76, who wrote numerous plays and lyrics during his four years at Harvard, received the loudest applause of the day for his Ivy oration last year. In his speech he defined the Harvard Experience with the help of a Webster Dictionary and a good deal...
...Stevens is the second largest textile manufacturer in the country. It employs 44,000 people in 85 plants, 63 of which are located in North and South Carolina. Wage levels there are about $1.50 per hour lower than the national manufacturing average. Wages in the South are generally lower; unions are much weaker there, and are practically nonexistent in the textile industry. To keep things this way, for years Stevens has conducted a massive campaign of illegal actions--discharge and intimidation of workers, interference in union activities, overt racial discrimination, and wiretapping. It has been found guilty of repeated labor...