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...applicant has been arrested. Yes, many have been busted, but what difference does that make? Don't ask for personal references. Should the ghetto resident get the corner bookie to vouch that he pays his bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Planting in the Ghettos | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...unrest that prevailed in Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example of the wobbly democratic process in action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Explosive Society | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...personal experience (and from the employment of those special "antennae" that Ann Landers insists all we homosexuals have) I make an honest estimate that the number of gay men undergraduates at Harvard is between 20 and 25 percent. I sense that the percentage of women is lower, but cannot vouch for this in any convincing way. A guess based on my experience here puts the number of gay people who are "out" at about one-third. I feel certain that the percentage of gay students still in the closet at Harvard is particularly high. I attended a public university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Gays | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

...letter, dated April 27, Mackay-Smith said as the "chances diminish daily" of the society's keeping its present director, "it would be professionally irresponsible to organize a tour for a group whose quality of music I cannot vouch...

Author: By Marcela L. Davison, | Title: Choir Officer Resigns Post In Protest | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...while I was speaking. They began punching: a lot of people then came over to see what was happening and sort of encapsulated it. The police then took them off, and one man showed FBI credentials; the other showed CIA credentials; and said, "These are good American citizens, we vouch for them," and they were...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Haiphong, Kissinger, and William Colby | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

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