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Canada and Uruguay have moved decisively, but within constitutional limits, knowing full well that to scrap the constitution à la Brazil would only play into the terrorists' hands by inviting real disorders. In Ottawa, Trudeau's Cabinet is already drawing up new laws to replace the War Measures Act, so as to permit more effective action against civil disorders. With its May 1968 upheaval in mind, France has beefed up its police force, and enacted a tough new anti-demonstration measure known as the "anti-wrecker's law." Under the law, police can arrest anyone standing in sight...
...almost even-11-10 on Cincinnati. As it turned out, the Orioles should have been clear off the board. Determined to avenge last year's shattering Series defeat by the New York Mets, the Oriole pitchers stalled the vaunted Big Red Machine while their hitters reduced it to scrap. And the most destructive force of all was Brooks Robinson...
...Most spectacularly in the James Bond movie Goldfinger, when a Lincoln with a dead gangster in it was reduced to a 4-ft. by 4½-ft. block of scrap metal...
...Without even showing identification, they were signed up for the whole program on the spot. Another presented herself at a local office and though not asked for identification, volunteered to present a rent receipt. Whereupon she left the office, only to return with a bogus receipt written on a scrap of paper bag by Mrs. Whitner...
...through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's worth of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own left to our creativity to find our own direction...