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...individual matter for each of the Justices. All agree that experience on the high court leads to a certain facility in identifying unworthy petitions: "A good number are obviously frivolous, and I'm seeing them more quickly now than I did at first," says one of the newer Justices. Matters that are purely local in nature, affecting only a few people and without any serious question of federal or constitutional law, are automatic toss-outs. Isolated cases of injustices are apt to be ignored too. "We've got to consider the importance of the point of the decision...
...area's industrial production is still below the 1967 level, and the unemployment rate is around 7%. During the past year, construction of commercial, industrial and public buildings in Massachusetts sank to a five-year low. The region's old factories are being hurt by competition from newer plants in the U.S. South, Europe and Japan...
...reason for selecting the 16 was ideological. Mary Lasker, the widow of the millionaire adman who established the foundation, has long urged that basic cancer research be more widely applied to clinical practice. She has also encouraged further investigative research into newer areas of cancer therapy. This year's prizes recognize scientists who have practiced the Lasker philosophy. "Too many physicians and laymen still think of treating cancer only in terms of surgery and radiation," she said. "We wished to point up the progress in treating some forms of cancer with chemicals as well...
Whether deserved or not, the indifference of the majority towards new works remains to blight the creative efforts of today's composers. Their works often become all the more mannered, even more unapproachable to the layman. Yet it is possible to accomodate the listeners and not sacrifice the newer sounds available in composition. Martino's Seven Pious Pieces, last Sunday morning's anthem at Memorial Church, exhibited a graceful modernity in contrast to the often-raucous exercises choirs deliver in contemporary pieces...
...responsible for the leaflet attacks, charges that "Bennet-Alder did everything possible to keep the Health Association from developing the ability to run the center. He also cut off training for para-professionals from the community." Opposition from some quarters in the community is virulent. Even some of the newer black administrators are being pilloried for "the same plantation mentality as the whites who came before...