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FRAP filed a $3.6 million libel suit against Drapeau late last week. Sunday's voting took place under heavy military guard. An estimated 45 per cent of Montreal's eligible voters showed up to cast ballots-an unusually meager turnout. Drapeau was swept into office with more than 90 per cent of the vote, and his party won all 52 city council seats. He will now begin his fourth term as Montreal's mayor...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Canada-The Quiet Desperation | 10/29/1970 | See Source »

Despite a meager turnout of twelve at a meeting in Winthrop House JCR last night, the SDS Antiwar Committee decided to hold a demonstration this Thursday in front of the Developmental Advisory Service's offices at 1737 Cambridge Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS to March On DAS Office | 10/27/1970 | See Source »

Which is not to say that the rest of the Orioles were standing idly by. Baltimore's Big Three-Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Destructive Force of Robby the Robber | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...effectiveness of all this expanded activity will greatly depend on whether Congress agrees next year to enlarge the FTC's budget beyond the meager $20.5 million authorized for fiscal 1970. If the commission continues its performance of recent months, an increasingly consumer-minded Congress might be persuaded to up the ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumerism: The FTC Gets Tough | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads, and a bedroom with a long workbench...

Author: By Peggy Rizza, | Title: Books Robert Frost | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

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