Word: redeemability
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...Oakland Raiders, was mulling over business prospects while recovering from a knee injury. What about trading stamps? Why, Powell asked himself, should a collector have to take the stamps to a redemption center and ex change them for gifts? Instead, Powell figured that a customer should be able to redeem the stamps where he gets them - for an extra loaf of bread at the grocery, or a tank of gas at the filling station. Powell thought that idea would appeal particularly to Negroes, many of whom could use the extra merchandise to satisfy basic needs. With that in mind...
...awarding deferments. Nixon promised to have Hershey and the National Security Council study the remaining problems, with new recommendations due Dec. 1. At the same time, Nixon maintains his position that the best way to reform the 29-year-old draft is to eliminate it altogether. Ways to redeem Nixon's campaign pledge to seek an all-volunteer Army are under consideration by an advisory committee. So radical a change will be a long time in coming, and certainly nothing can be done until the Viet Nam war ends. The most that can be expected meanwhile is patchwork...
...films are as much fun as John Ford's. Their humor and excitement is exceeded only by a visual and dramatic richness on all levels. Becoming acquainted with Ford is a wondrous process ultimately involving a rediscovery of America through Ford's extraordinary vision. At best, Ford's films redeem America, as Hawks' films redeem 20th century man from the abyss into which he has tumbled. We are better for their vision and insight, greater by virtue of the tradition and myth they have created to support...
...most delicate dilemmas confronting the Nixon Administration is that of reconciling its position as an advocate of free trade with the President's campaign pledge to cut down on textile imports. In an effort to redeem that promise, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans flew to Europe last weekend for two weeks of talks with the U.S.'s major trading partners. Stans goal is to persuade reluctant European countries to agree to voluntary quotas on their textile shipments...
...rights laws. Yet the brutal circumstances of life remained. Frustration grew. King's following soured. He was hooted in Watts when he preached nonviolence a day after the riots in 1965. His open-occupancy reform campaign in Chicago failed. The Memphis garbage strike seemed his last hope to redeem his philosophy...