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...part of the same outward-bound stream of people--literally thousands of them--that had migrated out of the area, since World War I, although interrupted by the depression, of course," Brimmer explained. "It was Steinbeck's dust bowl of 'The Grapes of Wrath'--Oklahoma, Arkansas, northern Louisiana--there were very few opportunities...
...Whitlam to study the land rights of Australia's indigenous population. The commission recommended this year that ownership of the land should be retained by the aborigines and that there should be no further exploration or mining without their permission. Confronted with the choice between poverty and the wrath of the green ants, the aborigines give every indication that, for the time being at least, they would rather remain poor...
Standing right at the storm center, and pulled in all directions, is a worker named Carmelo, called "Mimi," who incurs the wrath of the local Mafia honcho by declining to vote in the prescribed manner. Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini) leaves his indifferent wife at home and moves north to Turin. There he lands a job in a metallurgy plant, a position in the trade union and the love of a ravishing bohemian called Fiore (Mariangela Melato...
...wiretaps (see THE NATION). Until the issue is settled, the only incontrovertible fact in the affair is that it has prompted open questioning of how the press has handled the supersecretary. Says Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh, whose New York Times story on the taps fanned Kissinger's wrath: "I don't think Kissinger has been subject to the same scrutiny that other officials have. I think he should be treated the same way everyone else is in this town...
...been growing louder for months. "These fee arrangements," said Bruce Wilson, the Justice Department's No. 2 antitrust man, "can be viewed as little more than cartels." Added Keith Clearwaters, a deputy assistant attorney general: "There are no defenses that will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged for rendering legal services...