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Shurcliffe winds up his book with a nearly-superfluous "Editorial comment," urging the U.S. to keep aviation from becoming "man's scourge." The plea has convinced the League's members and some 20 anti-boom groups across the country: the real question is whether it can convince Congress...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Here Comes the Boom | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...staid burghers of Zurich, so obviously part of the modern world, re acted to the unfolding murder story with a primitive moral fury that the tabloid Blick described as "terrifying." Despite the judge's plea for temperance, police cars taking the accused to and from the court needed extra protection against would-be lynchers and were covered with spittle. Newspapers received hundreds of suggestions for punishment no less demonic than poor Bernadette's exorcism. One writer suggested tying the couple to a telephone pole and "delivering them to the people's anger until their God delivered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Beating the Devil | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...week after Mrs. Hamer's plea, Harrison Wellford, teaching fellow in Government, was able to send her the $1300--plus an undisclosed surplus--from collections in Cambridge. With the money, the co-op was able to beat the option deadline and keep the land from being sold to a white planter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $1300 From Mass. Saves Mississippi Blacks' Co-op | 2/5/1969 | See Source »

...Faculty takes up Tuesday just about where it left off at Paine Hall. The Lipset resolution has apparently been dropped, but the other three proposals will be discussed. Putnam's radical plea is conceded little chance of success; the question is whether the SFAC (or the HUC) proposal can defeat the more moderate CEP plan. Two important questions will probably determine the result...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: ROTC at Harvard--The Fight This Fall | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...threatened, 2) delay walkouts by ordering a 28-day "conciliation pause" and 3) impose settlements in jurisdictional disputes that union leaders are unable to resolve among themselves. Trade unionists who defy a government order would be subject to fines. On the other hand, the paper turned down the plea of management groups that all labor contracts should be made legally binding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Mrs. Castle's Recipe | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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