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...spent listening to the Council represent only one of the many headaches which Rudolph must endure to earn his $16,000 yearly salary. If the street patterns of Cambridge were planned at all, they were planned by a disciple of Jonathan Edwards bent on bequeathing a tangled hell to latter-day Cantabrigians. The streets are often narrow, and they careen into each other at odd angles, forming the squares which dot the map, and clog the traffic. Besides residents and students, floods of commuters from neighboring cities--such as Somerville and Watertown--use the streets on their...
...black, there will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...
...Image Is Primary. Although devoid of specific subject matter, Young-erman's paintings are usually symmetrical, fraught with enigmatic suggestions of plant and animal shapes, the rhythm of waves and the exuberance of flame. To many, his work suggests a latter-day Georgia O'Keeffe. Like her, he is attracted to "organic form, relating to living things in general." He will occasionally sketch leaves, is fascinated by color photographs of fish and Oriental paintings of insects. But picking up a wineglass in his studio, he says, "This doesn't interest me as a form...
These are the only major Federal gun laws on the books. The NRA often points to them as examples of "responsible" gun legislation. If ineffectiveness is an index of responsibility, the NRA is right. The National Firearms Act did cut down the number of machine guns in circulation, but latter-day Al Capones have had little trouble finding substitutes...
...coffee cups were whisked away. Mrs. Belle Spafford, President of the Relief Society of the Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints rose up on the dias to give the first speech--a history of the women's movement in the United States. She spoke with much intensity, very close to the microphone. 'The first women's group, an abolitionist group--they called themselves Females Against Slavery--met in Philadelphia during the 1830's. It was an outrage then that women should meet thus together for some political matter. Few attended the gatherings. Their first meeting," and here her voice...