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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court passed over its most recent opportunity to strike a blow for freedom. Indeed, by sustaining the order of the federal district court requiring the massive busing of schoolchildren to achieve racial balance in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County schools, the Supreme Court seems to have closed the door to any hope that our courts will return to a reasonable interpretation of the equal protection clause. Despite statements to the contrary--statements constructed upon a tortuous use of the English language...

Author: By Sam J. Ervin jr., | Title: A Stand Against Busing | 4/30/1974 | See Source »

...Evening of British Comedy involves excerpts, presumably, from Beyond the Fringe, Monty Python (and his Flying Circus), Flanders's & Swann's At the Drop of a Hat, and the Goon Shows of which I admit I've never heard. The others are all funny. Tomorrow and Saturday, 8 and 10 p.m. in the Dunster House...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: THE STAGE | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

...S.R.I, investigators of Uri Geller, is singled out in The Secret Life of Plants as a reputable scientist who has been experimenting with the response of one chicken egg to the breaking of another. He is also a promoter of the bizarre and controversial cult of Scientology, which Ingo Swann, another psychic tested by S.R.I., also practices. William Targ, a Putnam executive, recently contracted to publish Astronaut Ed Mitchell's forthcoming book, Psychic Exploration, A Challenge for Science. At the signing, Targ stated that "the real race now between the Russians and us is in the area of sciences like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...well educated community. If there is a body of basic literature which everyone has read, then communication is facilitated by inclusion by reference of highly complex ideas. One is capable, for example, of explaining a highly complicated interpersonal relationship by the simple statement: "It is like the relationship between Swann and Odette...

Author: By Richard Neely, | Title: More Art Than Science | 4/17/1973 | See Source »

...community in which most people have read Swann's Way, the statement is concise. If the analogy between the real and fictional situations is accurate, the statement quickly explains a complex relationship far more accurately than detailed discussion...

Author: By Richard Neely, | Title: More Art Than Science | 4/17/1973 | See Source »

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