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What's Wrong? From the California Real Estate Association, the court heard a far different story. Section 26 represents the people's overwhelming veto of "ill-conceived" laws forbidding private discrimination, said Los Angeles Lawyer Samuel O. Pruitt Jr. Those laws, he suggested, violated private-property rights under the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. In effect, they empowered the state to tell property owners to whom they must sell or rent...
Radioactive Skimmings. University of Alaska Zoologist William O. Pruitt, an authority on caribou, gave the beasts a thorough going over and found that their flesh contained an unusual amount of caesium 137. After that, the story unfolded with dangerous logic. The caribou's winter food is largely lichens, a primitive plant that has no roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing...
Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...
...WILLIAM F. PRUITT American Presbyterian Congo Mission Lulabourg, Republic of Congo...
...field without a horse. The viewer knows that Preston will get another job, and can only grin when the frustrated fellow complains that his wife (Dorothy McGuire) treats him "like change from a nickel" and thunders out of the house vowing that "Ah'm goan to see Mavis Pruitt and ah'm goan to drink booze and ah'm goan to raise every other kind of hell ah kin think...