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...April 1970 five-month-old Thomas Robison of Arroyo Grande was admitted to Sierra Vista Hospital in nearby San Luis Obispo, where Xrays showed that his skull was fractured from ear to ear. The boy's 17-year-old mother, who was living with an AWOL soldier, said he had fallen off a bed, and the child was returned to the mother three days later. Twice within the next month he required further hospital treatment for injuries that included whip welts on the back, puncture wounds in the neck, and burned fingertips; the last time he had strangulation marks...
GIVE AMERICAN film makers a drop of truth, and they'll try to expand it into oceans. A decade ago, the West was little more than a prairie or canyon-pitted vista through which beleaguered Wasp heroes played out moral fantasies. Justice was simple, a matter of everyone sticking to the place they could carve for themselves on the land, and ethics were administered with guns...
CRIMSON-COLUMBIA SPECTATOR -- The main quadrangle of Columbia's campus. South Field has suffered through many recent historical events. It was the setting for the first building take-over by SDS. It is the vista gazed upon-by the status of Columbia's Alma Mater which was dynamited in 1969. It was the escape route for the first unhappy undergraduate to ever cut through University red tape by shooting the Assistant Dean of Students. And it was the scene of the first Sha-Na-Na Concert. Today it will assume another niche in history, when it provides the playing...
...sharing with the states, and that it would squeeze merely "a nickel or two" out of the Pentagon's budget. Most of the money would have to come out of welfare as well as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, which run the gamut from Headstart to VISTA. Direct federal grants-in-aid to states and cities for such purposes as hospital construction and rapid-transit improvement would also be in jeopardy. Some likely candidates for deep reductions: manpower training, urban renewal and the Model Cities program...
REPAYMENT OF THE loans need not begin until the student has completed college, graduate school, or service in the military, the Peace Corps or VISTA. A student may also take a 12-month leave of absence from school without beginning repayment...