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...mess at the Tombs lent special urgency to Mayor John V. Lindsay's impassioned speech before the ABA delegates in St. Louis. Stunned by the jail riots in his city and prodded by Chief Justice Burger's analysis of a crippled judicial system, Lindsay pleaded with the lawyers to help repair the archaic machinery of justice...
Though there is no firm evidence that ads create the mood for drug taking, J.N. Cooke, chief of the Proprietary Association, a trade group of manufacturers of over-the-counter drugs, says that some "hard sell" ads may have lent credibility to the charge. His organization is reviewing the ads of all member firms to assess their influence on drug abuse. Proprietary drug producers, who last year spent about $118 million in advertising 48 brands of headache, tension and drowsiness remedies, are slowly moving to soften their messages. Jeffrey Martin Inc.. manufacturer of Compoz, "the little blue pill...
...individual rights and to demonstrate love of country while conceding its problems-seemed hardly one to call forth controversy. Yet controversy there was, despite the ban on speechmaking and the roster of bipartisan political figures and national leaders, including Hubert Humphrey, Senator Hugh Scott and Senator George McGovern. who lent their names to the day. On the right, the Rev. Carl McIntire denounced the ceremonies as a Hollywood-style ballyhoo dishonoring America's Viet Nam dead. From the satirical left came several "demands" that were politely shrugged off by the sponsors: equal time for Poet Allen Ginsberg to appear...
Though there have been occasional concerts in Harvard Stadium in past years, this is the first summer the University has lent the stadium for a full-fledged concert series...
Billboard Blight. Wheels within wheels began to turn. Volpe swayed a reluctant Bureau of Public Roads to attack billboard blight. White House staffers, recognizing the benefits to the visual environment, lent their approval. Then Illinois Representative John C. Kluczynski, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Roads, insisted that a highway-safety program be started too. But where would the money come from? Everybody thought of the Highway Trust Fund...