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Wilson's was an estimable demonstration of adversarial skills. But there was considerably less in this argument than met the ear. "Most dubious," said Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago, adding that the Wilson thesis amounts to a "wildcat discretion incompatible with the intentions of the Constitution." Berkeley's Sanford Kadish emphatically agreed: "That kind of thinking comes from the medieval doctrine that the king can do no wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: And Now a Right to Burgle? | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...drawn full-force into the union reform movement in 1969 when he helped to lead a series of wildcat strikes that forced the West Virginia legislature to vote compensation for black-lung victims. Boyle opposed the effort. Says Miller's press aide Bernard Aronson of the atmosphere they encountered at U.M.W. headquarters: "It was like the Wizard of Oz. There was this screen and a lot of smoke and noise and light coming from up above. When we took the screen away we discovered the real secret: nothing was going on up there at all, just a bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Vigor in the Pits | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...Wildcat--Poor to fair with wet, granular snow. Base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mid-Week Ski Report | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...grumbling was at the root of it. Afterward there were rumors in Cairo of abortive military coups. Egyptian journalists openly agitate against censorship. In a recent incident in Alexandria, 7,000 dock workers stormed a police station to free fellow laborers who had been arrested for participating in a wildcat strike. The situation is so perilous that Sadat, in the glow that followed his expulsion of Soviet military advisors (TIME, July 31), quietly introduced stiff new laws to punish acts that "threaten national unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: More Trouble for Sadat | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

Corkery and UNH captain Bill Beaney exchanged goals in the third period to finish up the scoring. Corkery's tally came with Wildcat defenseman John King in the box for tripping Reynolds on a breakaway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hockey Squad Annihilates Wildcats, 9-3 | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

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