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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...principal student leaders on October 5 (as many as a thousand activists are reportedly still being held), this move did little to quell the dissent. For the students, together with a wide range of broadly-based interest groups, focused their attention on a grievance which they all have in common: the War. On October 11, the Student Committee for Human Rights- together with the Committee of Women's Action for the Right to Live, the National Movement for Self-Determination, and the High School Teachers Organization- organized a conference of more than 1000 delegates to discuss the possibility of forming...
...Champ Clark Essay, "Mystique of Pro Football" [Nov. 9], was excellent. There is the "disciplined machinery of its teamwork: eleven men performing eleven separate actions in pursuit of a common goal." And therein lies something worth probing...
...native land is an intensely personal decision, and no two people make it for exactly the same reasons. Few are so sweeping as Actress Patricia Neal, who has lived in England since 1953. "I don't like anything that's happening in America-period." But some common strands run through many of the complaints. One is political polarization. Says Harold Kaplan, a newly minted Canadian citizen and chairman of the political-science department at Toronto's York University: "People who used to be reasonable liberals have been pushed far out to the right or to the left...
...rules of behavior seem formidably strange at first, as do one's fellow passengers, and one feels a yearning for the familiar comforts of home. But after a while the routine becomes second nature, and certain attractions begin to reveal themselves: the esprit de corps of participating in a common adventure, a feeling of liberation from home-town pressures and personalities, the stimulus of new people with disparate backgrounds and ideas...
...crews can take over any ship without finding it unfamiliar. Ludwig cuts design and construction costs to the bone. Many Ludwig ships have exhaust pipes instead of funnels, which cost more. Few, if any, have air conditioning, and none has the swimming pool for the crew that is common on ships owned by less parsimonious...