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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since 1968 Florida State University Sociologist Don Smith has been collecting and analyzing sex novels that are freely available on newsstands and drugstore racks in small-town America. Smith calls the current crop "basically a literature of power and domination, a literature of machismo." Rape scenes, he reports, now occur twice as often as they did in the 1968 books, but the woman almost always enjoys it. "The subtheme," he says, "is that the female really does want to be subjugated: no matter how much she says no, go ahead and do it anyway, because she'll be grateful...
Fibers have enormous advantages over wires. Because they do not "leak" light as copper wires "leak" electricity, fibers should eliminate the cross talk and static that can occur when one telephone wire spills some of its signal into a neighboring line. Measuring as little as one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, the fibers are also far less bulky than wires -an important consideration in cities, where underground cable conduits are already overcrowded. Eventually, the fibers may also prove cheaper. Supplies of copper are limited; silicon, the chief ingredient of glass fiber, is one of the most plentiful materials...
...bank was never robbed by the S.L.A., Judge Carter ruled that the document should be kept out of the trial because it could be prejudicial to Patty. He feared that it could start "ringing bells" in the minds of the jurors, reminding them of a bank robbery that did occur. Long before the jury was sequestered for Patty's trial, the press had reported that a grand jury was investigating her possible connection with the raid on the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, a Sacramento suburb, on April 21, 1975. During the robbery, one woman was killed. Said Carter...
Under the alternative calendar, registration would occur before Labor Day and final exams before Christmas vacation. Christmas vacation would run longer and the second semester finals would begin...
...South House Committee has drafted a proposal that would give residents more rights before disciplinary action like the January expulsion of six students from South House can occur...