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...comforting to learn that the nation values beauty above bullets. It is also disconcerting to think that American women need all that much help to look pretty. But in fact, by a more traditional measure of economic impact, the military-industrial companies far outrank Avon. Avon sales last year were $759 million; Quesada's ten companies did nearly $24 billion worth of business...
...archaic methods were not bad enough, said Burger, federal courts are reeling under the impact of rising population, new legislation obliging judges to hear new kinds of cases, and pressure for closer scrutiny of confessions and police evidence "before depriving any person of his freedom." Though liberty must outrank efficiency, Burger said, it is disturbing "that in all federal district courts it now takes twice as long as it did ten years ago to dispose of criminal cases from indictment to sentence." He added, "Finality at some point is indispensable to any rational-and workable -judicial system...
...N.A.A.C.P. Seeking a federal court injunction, they charge that the golf course would be de facto segregated because few local Negroes could afford the $100-a-year membership, plus fees. The case will be heard this month, but thus far the vision of green fairways seems to outrank either the black man's cause or the yellow bird's fate...
Cliffies may soon outrank the Cambridge police as crime fighters. Beginning Oct. 9, Radeliffe girls will be studying Tae Kwon Do, the Korean art of self-defense...
...business existing. More than half of the 30 independent Black African nations are still ruled by the same men who took over in the first days of freedom. While this reflects a stability of sorts, only one African leader has been voted out of office; inevitably, coups still outrank ballots, and will for a long time to come...