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...with narrowly legalistic defenses. When the Supreme Court was considering repossession laws, one lawyer argued that the customer had no property rights since he had defaulted on his contract; Justice Potter Stewart dryly brushed the sophistry aside by observing that the physical possession of the goods by virtue of partial payment of the price and the interest certainly represented "significant property...
Wicked Wilson Pickett is at the Sugar Shack. Little's been heard from him, and that's a partial result of a general mellowing in R 'n' B over the past few years. Pickett's being replaced by the slickness of your Al Greens. And that's too bad, because you can't always dance to the Rolling Stones, and ass-wriggling to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes just ain't the same...
...Club's previous policy was to allow women "signing privileges" or a partial membership if they were related to a Club member or if they belonged to the Radcliffe Club...
...collects the guano for fertilizer that the nitrogen-and phosphate-rich material is eventually returned to the "biological cycle in the form of plant nutrient." Guano is not the only example of nature's garbage. Peat, coal and even oil are all organic materials that have undergone only partial decomposition. Paradoxically, Dubos added, when man burns these fuels (and pollutes the atmosphere) he also helps complete nature's unfinished cycle, "because he thereby makes the carbon and minerals of these fuels once more available for plant growth...
...took a dramatic "walk" in space as his ship circled the earth. But most of the shots taken of Cernan by his fellow astronaut Tom Stafford were lost when a film pack accidently floated out of the open hatch and disappeared in space. Only one spacewalk picture-showing a partial view of Cernan-was returned to earth. That made Cernan more determined than ever to come home with a superior and complete photographic record of Apollo...