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...Senate Committee's concern with the moral implications of U.S. aid to Chile was prefaced by a State Department controversy two weeks ago in which Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 rebuked the U.S. ambassador to Chile, David H. Popper, for discussing "unrelated issues such as human rights and military aid in high level diplomatic talks...
...moral perspective of U.S. foreign aid to Chile is not unique. It is reflected in U.S. support of dictatorial regimes the world over, from Brazil to South Vietnam. However, the concern for human rights shown by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ambassador Popper is unique. As such it should be supported and echoed by Americans of all political persuasions who feel that torture and political imprisonment are wrong. It is time the U.S. stopped supporting regimes that must torture and murder to sustain themselves. Chile is a good place to start. The Congress should reject last week's vote...
...prefer more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps clutching at a large black satchel stashed under his seat. One among these is a skyjacker. Guess...
...Memphis theater. As he recalls: "I was soon making more than the theater manager, so he threw me out and took over the popcorn concession himself." Wilson sold him the machine in 1931 for the original $50, then invested the money in five pinball machines. (He later bought the popper back, and it now stands in his office.) By 1933 he had saved $1,700-all from nickels pumped into his machines-and used it to build a house. Soon after, Wilson was able to borrow $6,500 on the house from a bank. "Right then," he says, "I decided...