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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking, a six-point circular issued by the municipal committee forbade the posting of wall posters anywhere in the city except on the 100-yd. stretch of Changan Avenue at Xidan Street that has become known as democracy wall. A People's Daily editorial, which accompanied the edict, warned against "gatherings and parades that block traffic, attacks on the party, government and military organs," and "other acts of rumor-mongering and troublemaking...
...fatigue, weight loss, night sweats or intermittent low-grade fever, which can signify any number of disorders. Only when the patient develops TB's brassy cough does the disease become contagious. Fortunately, the chances of catching TB are low. One study showed that it took as long as six months of daily exposure to become infected...
...University of Chicago spokesman angrily branded Murphy's allegations "exaggerations and misstatements." In defense of Huggins and the university, he produced a research paper, published in 1958, that appeared to explain the surgery: it was performed seven years earlier with family consent on only six schizophrenics, two of whom also had cancer -one in the prostate gland, the other in the breasts...
...federal court in Detroit had ruled that from 1956 to 1965 Rowan and Grace overstated the company's excise tax credits and understated revenues. The men were originally sentenced to six months in prison, but later got reduced penalties. They were placed on two years' probation and ordered to do full-time community service work until early May. Last week the Fruehauf board voted that when those terms are up the two officers, who have reputations as big profitmakers, may return to the company from their unpaid leaves...
...recognized leadership: the heads of their organizations speak for only a tiny minority of a minority, and alone among American leaders they have no census of their constituency. The Institute of Sex Research, founded by Alfred C. Kinsey, defines a homosexual as anyone who has had more than six sexual experiences with a member of the same gender. On that basis, the institute estimates that homosexuals constitute 10% of the U.S. population (13% of the males, 5% of the females). Of these, according to gay leaders, perhaps only 1% or so are out of the closet. The rest are still...