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After weeks of gang terrorism that included killings, a near riot, robberies, pillaging and rape, Detroit's black mayor, Coleman Young, belatedly rushed back from vacation and vowed last week, "We will not tolerate lawlessness in the streets. We will stand for it no longer." Detroit's police...
Unstable Solution. The movie, silly but affable, has some rather short sighted social notions, and its portrait of an oppressive future society looks no more menacing than the California beach culture run riot. Everyone is bland and pretty, decked out for pleasure in outfits that look like togas designed by...
Toga Switch. Meanwhile the British, who begin wilting at around 75°, were hard pressed to keep their dignity starched. Businessmen were actually sighted coatless on London streets as temperatures stubbornly hovered near 90° each day, and a beat-the-heat letter to the London Times suggested that since...
By the accounts of the time, the rebel slaves were shrewd and able people. The men raided the plantations for black women and supplies. They built their own villages at the head of river rapids (where intruders could be sighted during portage) and raised crops far from the villages so...
Hartman thinks his success may help other handicapped people to enter the professions. Says he: "There is no way a sighted person can tell me what I can or cannot do."