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Street musicians leave a violin case open for contributions, and though Americans are usually awkward about public handouts, enough coins and bills customarily make it into the case to provide the musicians with up to $40 a day apiece. They all look young and healthy, so they do not threaten or depress passers-by as many beggars and blind accordion players, who get spare change and sympathy but rarely an audience...
...destroy the freedom to speak and hear, in the name of a deeply felt cause is to betray the cause itself and threaten the liberty of each member of the community," the statement read...
Talking Tough. For the moment, however, it is not the native Taiwanese but pro-Nationalist extremists who most threaten the serenity of Chiang's island fief. A bomb went off last October in a USIS library, and last month another smashed a Bank of America branch. The incidents remain unexplained, but just in case they presage more anti-U.S. explosions, American businessmen have begun to seal off auxiliary entrances to stores and factories and to hire extra guards...
Kahn's reply received sustained applause from most of the audience. "I cannot turn this country over to those who threaten it, and would divide it," he said. He said he favors leaving troops in Vietnam for the next ten years...
...would jeopardize the environment, Kistiakowsky said, because its "sonic boom" would create noise pollution and the huge amounts of kerosene required as fuel threaten the atmosphere...