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...Wimbledon. Caught in the middle, 40 of the world's top male competitors formed the Association of Tennis Professionals for self-protection. "We are not looking for a power struggle," A.T.P. President Cliff Drysdale said at the time. "However, I shall be surprised if the I.L.T.F. does not confront us head on over some issue before long...
...Stanford believes, Odessa should be well on its way to becoming an agricultural center. To be sure, some important points must first be resolved. He has not yet decided, for example, exactly which crops should be planted. He must also confront a Texas law banning the sale of food grown in human wastes, even though the sludge contains neither pathogens nor "any element of sham or sin." To prove the point, he will reserve 16 acres for scientific tests of all trace elements in various crops...
...grayer and older. He has assured them that he has an adequate amount of money for his defense and his family's needs, though he is no millionaire. But not even his friends can say what happens when they are not around and John and Martha alone must confront his besmirched reputation and his shattered career...
...customers were limited to adults perfectly well-aware of what they were getting. That would, if nothing else, have settled the vast bulk of pornography litigation. Paradoxically, if the Burger Court begins taking a tougher line, it will probably assure another flood of cases-which will force it to confront once again the problem of defining what pornography really is and deciding what should be done about...
...between our two countries remains characterized by the historical and moral background of our experiences." Then, addressing Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who was dressed all in white, he added: "You extended an invitation to the representative of a new epoch in Germany's state history. This means you confront the power of the past with the challenge of the present. I feel that mankind would indeed be lost but for the courage to make a new beginning...