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...knowledge of anyone planning to publish or distribute the papers, and that he was "never given definitive information that someone possessed the study in this state." This would appear to make his testimony of marginal importance from the outset, if indeed the government's only purpose was to probe the matter it has been empowered to investigate...
...BEEN A BLEAK FALL for the Harvard Coop. The federal government has launched a probe into Coop "intimidation" of union organizers, apparent deception has surfaced in dealings with record companies, a past controller has hurled an $80,000 lawsuit against the Society to claim benefits allegedly due, a former director is seeking to nullify last spring's election results, more than half of the Coop employees have requested a vote on unionization, and 1971 changes in the Coop pension program have been shown to greatly worsen the lot of newly hired workers. The number and nature of these events pose...
...AINT ANY CRAZIER than the average asshole on the street," decides Randle P. McMurphy, the hero of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest after only a short time inside a state mental hospital. From Shakespeare to Marnt-Sade to Durrenmatt, writers have attempted to probe the implications of insanity and to articulate the paradoxes that best madness. McMurphy soon learns that, as one of the doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched...
...union also announced, and the Coop general manager confirmed, an ongoing National Labor Relations Board probe into alleged Coop "harassment" of pro-union employees...
Gravel, through Rodberg, negotiated the publication of the papers with Beacon Press. The government had tried to compel Rodberg's testimony concerning how Gravel obtained a copy of the papers. When Gravel argued for Rodberg's immunity from subpoena. The ensuing legal light caused the probe to be suspended...