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Several officials in the Cambridge government said last night that they thought a raid was imminent. A university source said that Walter J. Sullivan, the mayor of Cambridge was enraged at the sit-in and expressed a desire to put on a helmet and lead a police charge himself...
...issues, Nixon believes that private enterprise should play a larger role in solving the nation's social problems. But he has run into opposition to his plans for offering tax incentives to businessmen who sponsor job retraining and black-capitalism projects. Congressional Democrats consider the idea a "backdoor raid" on the Treasury, a disguised form of Government spending. Some businessmen also fault the incentives. Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries and a Democrat, fears that if business were to receive tax subsidies but fail to root out social problems, it "could be set up as the goat...
...play, which is full of life's nothingness, despair, and death, manufactures miserable versions of characters from mythology. It could succeed; its Bacchus as a barkeep who can't get drunk and a psychotic slattern who might be an uglified and twisted Aphrodite are curious figures, and a raid by a masked group led by Death always has dramatic potential...
...slums and money-losing corporations, has just captured Sharon Steel (annual sales: $225 million) after a bitter battle. Posner's NVF Co., a Delaware mini-conglomerate (annual sales: $30 million), offered a package of debentures and warrants backed by so few assets that Sharon accused him of planning to raid its coffers to bail NVF out of financial trouble. Even Posner's prospectus admitted that the combine might well earn too little money to pay the $4,500,000 a year interest cost on the debentures. Last week, as Posner was elected chairman of Sharon, six of its directors quit...
...SLIDE sequence follows. The dancers grow angrier, more passionate. The music begins to sound like the fire of machine gun bullets, interspersed with air raid sirens. The slides and music literally assault your senses, but they assault the dancers as well; at the end of the movement, when the dancers stretch their agonized hands high in the air, their shadows projected 20 feet high on the screen behind them, they are not groping only for themselves...