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Coming as it did at the height of the nuclear-missile controversy in Western Europe, the debate played to a packed house. Spectators listened politely as Pacifist Leader Helen John warned, "If there's a war, we won't be able to debate again in 50 years." But they jeered when she called Britain "an occupied country" because of the U.S. military bases there. Conversely, they applauded when former Prime Minister Lord Alec Douglas-Home said, "I am fearful when I see unilateralists sending out signals to a dictatorship that is mobilized with enormous armed forces and practices...
...enjoying themselves at the Taverne Bavaria in Santa Cruz, where hundreds of ex-Nazis gathered for reunions, took their uniforms out of mothballs, sang S.S. apthems and even imported prostitutes from Frankfort. The whole operation was financed though drug and arms deals. As an exile, Barbie was at the height of his power and bragged in an interview with the German magazine Stern: "Every time the military needs help they call...
Regardless of political stance, however, most observers agree that the Society--which reached its height in the mid-'60s--is now more an interesting relic than a strong political force. McManus likes to say that the organization was partly responsible for the nation's electoral surge to the right in 1980, but most analysts of popular opinion doubt that...
...other guys weren't hurting last night, as the slower, shorter Judges couldn't handle the Crimson offense Center Monroe Trout converted a two inch height advantage into 10 Harvard points and forward Ken Plutnicki sped past the Brandeis front line to nab 12 points on six of eight shooting. The cagers humbled the opposition on the boards 54-29 with Plutnicki's 13 leading...
...strangely quiet denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...