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...booty includes everything from cargoes of fish to duty-free goods being trafficked in a centuries-old barter trade between East Malaysia and the Philippine island of Mindanao. "The greed of the pirates is unbelievable," says a Malaysian official. One ruthless pirate tradition of yore prevails: walking the plank. Of 500 victims attacked by buccaneers off the southern Thai provinces of Trat and Chantaburi last year, more than 300 drowned...
Harvard swabbed in a regular season match at The Country Club, but the Crimson quintet walked the plank on Thursday, with dismal rounds of 82, 82, 86, 92 and 92, which took them out of contention despite a better showing on Friday. Dartmouth finished second with a team total of 654 strokes, followed by Holy Cross, URI and UMass...
That was nothing compared to the fire he kindled as a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. He became an overnight liberal celebrity when he made a public demand for a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. "The time has arrived," he told the convention, "for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights." The plank was adopted, provoking the creation of the Dixiecrat Party, which threatened to cut deeply into the Democrats' normally heavy Southern vote. Defeat seemed assured...
There is no apparent limit to the richness of her patterning. The objects are disciplined by a vertical-horizontal grid, or held like parts of a collage in shallow framing boxes; those formal devices, along with the shapes themselves (the jig-sawed edge of a plank recalling the side of a Braque guitar) allude to cubism. But Nevelson's work, although grounded in a cubist syntax, has very different aims. It is addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They...
...state strategist for ERA, warned that it would be harder to pass the amendment in conservative states if it is associated with the lesbian cause. "Lesbianism has been an albatross on the whole movement since the last century. It is an extra burden we do not need." Nonetheless, the plank was approved by nearly as large a majority as the other resolutions. Lesbians in the galleries roared their approval: "Thank you, sisters!" Pink and yellow balloons were released with the message WE ARE EVERYWHERE. The Mississippi delegation, which included six men, who had been elected along with the women, rose...