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...Skid Row Plot A scheme to kill Carter...
...Euroblood traffic began in the early 1970s when many U.S. cities began reducing their purchases of blood from paid donors, often Skid Row derelicts, for fear of spreading hepatitis. To replace these old sources, Dr. Aaron Kellner, director of the New York Blood Center in Manhattan, decided to turn for help to Europe, notably Switzerland, West Germany and Belgium, which had blood to spare because of their different approach to blood collecting...
Those arguments are difficult to refute, not because they are themselves so airtight, but because it is so easy to rip through them and skid out of control into another, equally dangerous extreme. It is, for example, too simple to go all the way over the edge, to invoke the sanctity of a free speech and press, and to deny a newspaper's right to refuse any ads at all. There are those, after all, who hold that a newspaper has no right at all to deny access to its columns--to restrict the right of free speech...
Melvin Perkins, 55, the Republican hobo of Baltimore's skid row, has run for office many times before, so no one paid much heed when he was the only candidate to qualify on the ballot against an immensely popular Democratic Congressman, Goodloe Byron. Then Byron, 49, died while running along the Potomac River, and his widow took his place on the ballot. Perkins' chances of winning were never good, but they got even worse when he was tossed in jail for assaulting a woman bus driver. Undaunted, he pointed out: "We've had plenty of Congressmen...
This week's biggest surprise in baseball is the continuing skid of the Red Sox, who have now lost ten of their last 12 games, and most of their lead over the Brewers and Yankees in the AL East race. Actually, the slump, albeit of nearly epic proportions, isn't such a surprise. The baseball season is incredibly long, and only the most ardent Boston fan could possibly claim that the averages would never catch up with his precious...