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...killings at Kent State are a national stain that has stubbornly refused to go away. Though the shootings occurred nearly four years ago, the insistent demands for justice by parents of the victims and others have kept the matter before the attention of official scrutiny by one Government agency or another. Last week it looked as if at long last the Kent State tragedy was heading toward a just resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Justice at Kent State | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...made for Joys, for instance--come through beautifully. They all help the ironic stylization virtually imposed on director Gene Lesser by the play's ironic, stylized speech--"Money, Wife," Mr. Peachum the fence explains, "is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Repertory With a Sting | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

...situation is compounded considering the chancellor of the university knew Horovitz had no undergraduate degree, and granted special permission for him to enter the doctoral program. Were CCNY to act sensibly and mete out a minor punishment to Horovitz, the whole incident would disappear; as it is, the stain on Horovitz is being transferred to City College. That university is out of whack with itself...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Truth and Consequences | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

...United States must immediately suspend all cultural and economic contacts with the Kremlin despots. To hope that these contacts might bring about a liberalization of Soviet rule in the face of last week's events is not only naive, but fatuous. To continue them merely serves to stain the honor of the United States beyond earthly redemption. Laurence Krute '74 Jewish Defense League Stephen Rosen '74 Young Americans for Freedom

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLZHENITSYN | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

There had been celebrated clients before. My friend Sherlock Holmes had solved the little matter of the Vatican cameos for His Holiness the Pope, as I noted in my modest chronicle The Hound of the Baskervilles; he ad elucidated The Adventure of the Second Stain for the Prime Minister. We had also known curious cases. There was, for example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of the Strange Erasures | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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