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...water-not deep enough to activate the fuses. Because the added pressure of a vessel passing overhead might detonate her, all shipping was ordered to keep clear. But early attempts to explode the lost ammo ship with bombs dropped by Navy Invader jets were in vain. The special fuses fitted to three 1,000-lb. bombs...
...will not affect the election. Of the remaining five, two are not contenders but will take considerable votes from the others. One of the two is Waller, who has attacked both civil rights "rabble-rousers" and the "hooded cowards" of the Ku Klux Klan. Waller has twice tried in vain to convict Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evans. His votes will be Winter's in the likely runoff three weeks from today...
...more than three months, Congress searched in vain for a formula to head off a railroad strike. Last week it faced the urgent task of ending...
...cleanly and expertly played by Tom Aldredge, an ambulating master-of-ceremonies, hosting the activities with a hand-microphone that feeds amplifying speakers on the wall, and occasionally smoking a cigarette. At one point he is irresistibly compelled to desert objectivity and intrude himself into the action in a vain attempt to change Creon's mind and save Antigone. It is a stunning moment, and here Aldredge quite rightly leaves his microphone aside. At another point, the Chorus holds up the play in order to give the audience a speech about Anouilh's view of the essence of tragedy. This...
...complained that Italy was exploiting sweatshop labor. It thus won Common Market permission to impose a "compensatory" tax on such imports while French industry modernized to meet the competition. After the tax was repealed, the French tried raising import duties and imposing inordinately rigid border inspections in vain efforts to stem the appliance flow. Now. France is considering an official protest to the Common Market Commission...