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...Tigers led off the bottom of the tenth inning with two consecutive hits by Dick McAuliffe and Alkaline. Bill Freehan singled off Joe Horien to send McAuliffe home, while Kaline later scored when Oakland reliever Dave Hamilton walked Norm Cash with the bases loaded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reds Net Pennant; Tigers Tie Series | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

...must we blacks now submit to linguistic and grammatical apartheid by having our children exposed to Black English wrongly set before them in print in our schools? Schools must meet their responsibility for preparing our young to compete effectively in the world of affairs where Standard English is the norm. Dialects should be left to novelists and songwriters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1972 | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

There are two main reasons such freewheeling exhibitionism has become the Council behavioral norm. The first is a lack of leadership in any form--either substantive or procedural. Mayor Ackermann, who presides at Council sessions, says, "it's not my job to make speeches or shut people...

Author: By Joel M. Goldberg, | Title: City Council: A Problem of Behavior | 8/1/1972 | See Source »

...enraged impotence. It seemed as if no kind of protest, violent or otherwise, could penetrate the impregnable barriers with which President Nixon and his tiny coterie of advisors have surrounded themselves. A government unresponsive to or even unaware of the wishes of its people seemed to have become the norm in American life. Thousands of students, here and across the country, relearned the hard political facts of life this Spring. As Hanoi was evacuated and American bombers continued to level North Vietnam and much of the rest of Southeast Asia, those students became even more convinced that fundamental social change...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Indochina War Rekindles Harvard Student Activism | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...enraged impotence. It seemed as if no kind of protest, violent or otherwise, could penetrate the impregnable barriers with which President Nixon and his tiny coterie of advisors have surrounded themselves. A government unresponsive to or even unaware of the wishes of its people seemed to have become the norm in American life. Thousands of students, here and across the country, relearned the hard political facts of life this Spring. As Hanoi was evacuated and American bombers continued to level North Vietnam and much of the rest of Southeast Asia, those students became even more convinced that fundamental social change...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Political Activity Revives As Vietnam War Expands | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

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