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...they confronted the administration with their demands.... Most of you have silently allowed the Hitler-type revolutionaries to blacken your reputation in America and throughout the world.... Your good name and your reputation have definitely been blackened because all around the world they have pronounced you guilty of... howling foul curse words at respected public officials,... kidnapping college presidents,... killing police,... burning banks." He took some of the soft, reproachful tone from his voice, and put in the hardness of a politician making a point "America is not perfect, but while you and I are working for a better...
Last week the commission came to the aid of credit-card users who complain that computers foul up their bills. It proposed new rules that will probably take effect early next year. Under them, if a customer writes in to a company to dispute a charge in his bill, the company cannot seek payment or interest charges until it investigates the item and fully explains it to the customer. Nor can one firm tell another firm that a customer is a bad credit risk without first informing him. In still another move last week, the FTC aimed to bring more...
...Japanese call the foul brown sludge hedoro, combining the words for "vomit" and "muck." Like an indisposed pagan god, the port bottom belches huge bubbles of methane gas and alkaloid matter to the surface. In July, the hydrosulfide stench caused workers aboard a dredger to faint. Naked fishermen diving for abalone near by broke out in a mysterious rash attributed to the tainted water. As a result, Fuji's problems seized Japan's headlines...
Thomas's value to the team goes beyond just being a scoring threat. He, like Derck Sanderson of the Bruins, is a policeman on the field. "Patience is a virtue in soccer, but I find myself running out of it very quickly-especially when somebody starts to foul me. They can't beat me legally so they start to play dirty. I only retaliate," Thomas said...
...Brutality and foul play should receive the same summary punishment given to a man who cheats at cards," Roosevelt said at the time...