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Penn used a man advantage to threaten the Crimson in the last seconds, but the Crimson effectively killed the penalty and avoided overtime...
Italy has pushed its modernization none too soon. The country's trade unions recently called a half-day general strike, and two weeks ago electrical workers caused a four-hour brownout in Rome. The unions threaten more strikes unless the government rapidly improves housing and schools. Labor trouble in the months ahead could slow production and start still another capital flight. But if Prime Minister Emilio Colombo can keep the country tranquil by rapidly streamlining the economy, 1971 may be a vintage year for Italian business. The European Common Market Executive Commission predicts that, barring domestic discord, Italy will...
...last week when Parliament approved in principle his government's Industrial Relations Bill. The bill would make labor contracts legally binding, with damage payments levied against unions that violate its terms. It would also introduce secret strike ballots and 60-day cooling-off periods for proposed strikes that threaten national health, safety or the economy...
AMERICA'S families are in trouble?trouble so deep and pervasive as to threaten the future of our nation," declared a major report to last week's White House Conference on Children. "Can the family survive?" asks Anthropologist Margaret Mead rhetorically. "Students in rebellion, the young people living in communes, unmarried couples living together call into question the very meaning and structure of the stable family unit as our society has known it." The family, says California Psychologist Richard Parson, "is now often without function. It is no longer necessarily the basic unit in our society...
...past, that as American ground troops are gradually withdrawn from South Viet Nam, he will carry out his responsibility to protect those that remain from attack. Then he continued: "Now, if as a result of my conclusion that the North Vietnamese by their infiltration threaten our remaining forces−if they thereby develop a capacity and proceed possibly to use that capacity to increase the level of fighting in South Viet Nam−then I will order the bombing of military sites in North Viet Nam, the passes that lead from North Viet Nam into South Viet Nam, the military...