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...toxins in doubt. - Urged the Senate to ratify a long-pending agreement worked out in the United Nations that would make genocide an international crime. The proposal has been languishing in the Senate since 1950, hung up in part over doubts as to its constitutionality. - Announced, in a different vein, that he will not make any immediate changes in the nation's current policy on oil imports. A Cabinet task force had urged dropping import quotas, which are now assigned to each oil company, and instituting a system of protective tariffs instead. Such a change would have the effect...
...terms of investigative reporting, the HurBus is miserable and always has been," Baughman said. "Maybe somebody with more of a nose for news, with more of an instinct for the jugular vein, might make it a more elaborate paper." Baughman, who is wrapping up his two-year term as Publications Board chairman next month, was in a particularly good position to evaluate the newspaper and to give his comments on the record...
...there is the music (by George Fischoff) and lyrics (by Carole Baker). The songs are often in a Bacharachrock vein and quite the better for it. Perhaps reflecting the common schizophrenia of directionless musicals, however, Baker and Fischoff aren't quite sure whether they want their score to be Hair or Hello, Dolly. So, we get a fine rock number ("There's a Comin' Together") in the first act and a soppy strut-number ("Sweet Memory") in the second. Worst of all, the first-act rocker is given a safe, conventional dance to go with it-despite the fact that...
...Sacred Cod hanging high in the state Capitol in Boston winces at the thought of another day. He raises a syringe, gropes for a vein beneath his scales, and sticks it in. He curls his upper lip back and neighs like a horse...
...girl across the table told me how the nurses gave her "a double arm." The first nurse missed her vein so another nurse tried her luck on the other arm. The guy next to me said he was giving blood to protest the war. I did not have any pat answer explaining my reasons, but part of it was because giving blood is like giving money to charity-except it gets under your skin a lot more...