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...charged with conspiracy after a police investigation. According to British law, the instant a civil or criminal matter is formally brought before a court, newsmen risk jail for contempt if they publish more about the case than is revealed in open court. The Times felt that it had to yank the editorial from the remaining press run. In its place appeared much white space and a note explaining that the article had been rendered "potentially prejudicial...
...already has 800 volunteers waiting to participate. Says one man who is already involved, Sergeant William Conreux: "At first there was some apprehension that the public, especially in the black neighborhoods, would be hostile, but none of that has emerged. It's just the opposite. Some parents even yank their kids onto the street to introduce them to a real, live policeman." St. Louis police received fan letters from citizens lauding the program, and the restaurants and stores in the areas report increased business. One woman was so enthusiastic she telephoned the captain in charge of the program...
...election year game of tug of war shaping up between Richard Nixon and the Democratic-controlled Congress, both sides last week exerted an important political yank. The President, as expected, formally warned legislators that federal spending in fiscal 1973 must be kept to a maximum of $250 billion, and he threatened to veto bills "calling for excessive spending, which threatens the federal budget." Nixon was clearly worried by the nation's ballooning deficit, which is expected to reach $35 billion in the current fiscal year...
What is most remarkable about the play is how effortlessly Rabe goes beyond the war and what is obvious to proceed with the personal story of Pavlo Hummel. It baffles classification and makes world war two dramas like Arthur Laurent's Home of the Brave look like a Yank comic strip. For Hummel the army world is his only hope for salvation, the only remedy for his fatherlessness. And in a way he makes it his salvation. Home on a furlough, his pink-suited, mod half-brother treats him with the mild contempt he always has until Hummel explodes. "Look...
...Harrison loves to stress the negative. If you make a mistake. Harrison will yank you right out of the line-up. A number of times people went into the game as substitutes and made mistakes the first time they got the ball. Harrison immediately took them out of the line-up," he said...