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...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...
...next step in the University's plan was to lock the east, west and north entrances to the Science Center each night. A security guard would then have been seated facing the only entrance to the building, the one across from the Yard. After 10 p.m., visitors to the building would have had to show University identification...
...University must go even farther, though, than this initial plan to lock the doors and check identification. It seems that Harvard is looking for the easy way out of a problem which must be addressed. The stairways and elevators in the Science Center should be more carefully monitored, and even locked, so that "a person with an unauthorized purpose" does not have access to the quiet upper floors where people often study or work alone...
...that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right to lock his own back door." Associate Attorney General Francis Keating has come up with a nickname for the big hole: "Our buried Berlin Wall...
Public opinion has never stampeded Brown, 80. In fact, it has tended to lock him in place. In 1950, after the short-lived All-America Football Conference disbanded, the leftover 49ers and Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just...