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...thing, they have been wary of the U.S. Justice Department, which carefully scrutinizes newspaper consolidations. But Justice, which asks that it be notified of a New York merger ten days ahead of time, says it will not object if the papers can show they are definitely losing money. Another roadblock is the unions-the typographers led by Bert Powers and Tom Murphy's Newspaper Guild. If the papers eliminate too many jobs or fail to offer sufficient compensation to dismissed employees, neither union would hesitate to strike...
Moore was dead. But Rogers immediately sent out a radio alarm, giving a description of the black truck, detailed down to the Confederate-flag decal on the front bumper. Less than an hour later, police at a roadblock in Tylertown, Miss., just across the state line, stopped a truck fitting Rogers' description. Arrested was Ernest Ray McElveen, 41, a mill worker and sometime insurance man from Bogalusa, who happened to have two pistols with...
...Filipino -set out in a pickup truck from Tuy Hoa to a sugar cane experimental station in Tan My, 21 miles away. Grainger was driving hard, since a leisurely pace on any road in that province is an invitation to attack. He passed two lightly manned government roadblocks, ignoring signals to turn back. At length he came to another roadblock, this one held by four Viet Cong. As Grainger tried to race through the block, a hand grenade landed in the road in front of the truck and exploded, shattering the back window. Cut by flying glass and shrapnel, Grainger...
...entire session thus involved, with the tie hanging out like the tongue of a Saint Bernard." The court, of course, had some serious cases, not the least of which involved a woman who complained violently about speeding on Mount Vernon Road. When state troopers finally set up a roadblock, "the lady who made all the fuss was herself picked up for unreasonable speed driving to the post office, and to crown the lily, was picked up 15 minutes later on her return trip. She has since left town...
Bishop James A. Pike of the Episcopal Diocese of California a crowd of over 250 in Agassiz Theatre last night that "idolatry has become the roadblock of Christian religion." Churches, he said, are attempting to become the God of man, instead of teaching...