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Spencer J. Bloch, of Ossining, N.Y. (Mathematics); Eric S. Brondfield, of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (Physics); Richard J. Defouw, of Port Washington, N.Y. (Astronomy); Benjamin M. Friedman, of Louisville, Ky. (Economics); William E. Kerstetter Jr., of Greencastle, Ind. (English); E. Perry Link Jr., of Plattsburgh, N.Y. (Philosophy); William G. Quinn Jr., of Chadd's Ford, Pa. (Biology); Charles D. Troob, of Forest Hills, N.Y. (History and Literature), and Robert D. Yee, of San Francisco, Calif. (Biology...
...theory of participatory democracy has its roots in the American Constitutional Convention of 1789, as the founders of SDS observed during the Port Huron Conference of 1962. Madison, citing Montesquieu, wrote in The Federalist Papers that only small nations could remain truly democratic. In a large country, one big faction might blot out the rights of a slightly smaller faction by means of a simple majority. The New Leftists, accordingly, believe that the United States has grown too large to rely on the simple majority alone and that consensus politics must return if justice is to be maintained...
...welcome. Already, more than 17,000 reservations have been booked by northbound tourists for this season, another 1,500 for next year. Not only does the new service open up the 330-mile inside passage from Kelsey Bay on Vancouver Island to Prince Rupert, B.C.'s largest northern port, but the ship's 20-hour run also eliminates 800 miles of driving to get to the panhandle of Alaska. In fact, by continuing northward from Prince Rupert on the three-year-old Alaska Ferry Service, the motorist can escape all but 600 miles of the arduous...
Along March Point on Washington's Fidalgo Island, where three generations of the March family let their sheep out to graze on bucolic farm land, there are now Shell and Texaco refineries and there will soon be a $15 million Lone Star Cement plant. Near by, at sleepy Port Townsend, Crown Zellerbach has built a pulp mill...
Despite doggedly second-line direction, A Man Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts...