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...Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, a fiercely bearded hippie buttonholes a passerby: "If you ain't saved by the blood of Jesus, man, forget it. You're damned to the pits of hell." Along Broadway in San Francisco's honky-tonk North Beach, hirsute zealots plead with gawking conventioneers to bypass the topless-bottomless shows. Outside Atlanta, amid the acid rock, nude bathing and casual lovemaking of a rock festival, a young couple and their friends man two "Jesus tents" for the lost and lonely. In Boise, beaded and bell-bottomed converts wade into the river...
...watching to see if their textile industry was right in warning that it was only the first to come under U.S. pressure for import quotas. They may not have to wait long. Next week top executives of the U.S. steel industry plan a one-day blitz of Congress to plead their case for more restrictions on imports of steel products...
...became a one-man lobby against billboards (TIME, Oct. 31). Although the Senate approved a measure in November to pay billboard owners to remove their own signs, Snarr's crusade had hardly begun. Idealistic, insistent, resplendent in purple suits and iguana cowboy boots, Snarr seized every chance to plead his cause. This winter, he astonished politicians by convincing John A. Volpe...
Those questions challenged jury practices in capital cases all over the country. The jury found Maxwell guilty, and sentenced him to death in a single proceeding. This gave Maxwell no chance to take the stand and plead for mercy. Had he done so during the trial, he would have been cross-examined and risked self-incrimination on the issue of his guilt or innocence. The jury also fixed the penalty without any guidance from the judge as to the circumstances under which a man should be sentenced to death...
...mayors, and the senior national and state political leaders of the President's party. After them comes a helter-skelter militia of citizens, often sniping at one another, enemies of the President as well as friends: banker, lawyer, merchant, chief, cleric, doctor, scholar, journalist, student, housewife. Some advance to plead a cause, others to extol, still others to criticize and fix blame...