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...Weathermen, members of RYM (although many milder RYM adherents have lately begun dissociating themselves from certain Weathermen offensives) are an outgrowth of last year's New Left, viewed at the time as being less militant than WSA. While WSA is well-organized, tightly disciplined, and patient, building for revolution around the support of America's working class, the Weathermen are flamboyant. They use guerrilla tacties, hit-and-run violence...
...committee-announced only last Monday and still awaiting formal Faculty approval-is an outgrowth of the old Committee of Fifteen. May said that nine of its members will meet today: three students three Faculty members from the Committee of Fifteen and three members of University Administrative Boards...
...across the ocean. The idea is to bypass completely the crowded docks at deepwater ports. Cargo would be loaded on the barges at an inland U.S. river port and unloaded at another-which could be on a U.S. river system or in Europe or Asia. The arrangement is an outgrowth of the trend toward shipping goods overseas in factory-loaded containers. It overcomes several drawbacks inherent in containers, however, notably their need for costly special dock facilities...
Friends of the Family. Mosley, now 40, is a man whom Mills describes as having "a great, almost warlike hostility for criminals-a hatred that is an outgrowth of, and never overshadows, his love for the law." It is almost as if he knows, as the trial begins, that the process of law to which he has devoted his life will probably set the defendant free. First comes the jury selection. "I need twelve men who can agree unanimously that the defendants are guilty," says Mosley. But if the defense gets one man who refuses to cast a guilty vote...
Sound Assumption. Myrberg's shark-calling technique is an outgrowth of his studies of fish behavior financed by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation. After starting his research on North Bimini in 1965, he proceeded on the assumption that fish communicate better acoustically than by sight or smell. Sound, after all, is carried farther in water than in the air, and three or four times as fast...