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During the Wimbledon tennis matches, one of the most popular meeting places for the American players and their wives was a coin laundry just off trendy Carnaby Street. Americans balked at the high cost of sending their laundry out. One tourist, in fact, was arrested for trying to escape from a London laundry without paying his bill. He claimed that the cost of the washing exceeded the value of his clothes. The magistrate told him to check prices beforehand...
Harvard's financial involvement in South Africa is not a new issue, but this year was the first in which a core of students opposed to Harvard's investment policy were able to find popular support among their usually passive peers. The reason for that success lies, for the most part, in the ability of the groups fighting the investment policy tos trengthen their organizing efforts. They were able to elevate the South Africa question -- whichis hardly a major concern in America outside certaihn Congressional hearings and some universities -- to the level of a major issue at Harvard...
SUCH AN ARGUMENT is a popular one, especially during times of what the syndicated columnists like to call "campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government...
...Puzo telling Mafia yarns and offered a $5,000 advance for a book about the Italian underworld. The rest is publishing history?and American sociology. Puzo's saga of blood and money, treachery and revenge, class injury and ferocious pride, is one of the most gripping stories in modern popular fiction. Despite its cast of venal monsters and hired killers, The Godfather offered a nostalgic view of the embattled family defending and enriching itself in a ruthless world. Don Corleone even became a Pop father figure?a fascinating inversion of Walter Cronkite?whose distinctively throttled voice conveyed authority, sincerity...
Humans, true, have tried to evade or minimize risk ever since man first ducked into a cave to elude the sabertooth. Ancient Babylonia invented marine insurance, but notoriously litigious Americans have always wanted more than mere insurance. As soon as the automobile became popular, the motoring public began to develop what San Francisco Liability Lawyer Scott Conley calls the belief that "there must be a pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions...