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...LANDMARK Massachusetts vote casts a new light on these arguments and consequently should force Bok and the Corporation to reexamine their stance. The first two objections--the importance of preserving political purity, and the relative effectiveness of divestment over pressure from within--are grounded more on principle than on facts Although the debate in the legislature and with Gov. King added few new arguments to this thoroughly discussed topic, the Commonwealth's overwhelming rejection of these concerns, thus upholding the moral principles behind divestment, makes the practice more acceptable than principle...
Harvard filed for dismissal of the case following a series of interrogatories filed by Isaac's attorney; Theodore Landmark questioning employment and tenure procedure and requesting reasons for the large difference in the numbers of tenured Black and white professors...
...biggest thing in LeMoyen, La., used to be Baker's Stop and Shop, the general store that serves as a landmark along Route 71 for this impoverished rural community. With unemployment in St. Landry Parish at 15.3%, the job seekers among LeMoyen's few hundred residents have been lucky to find occasional farm work in the nearby soybean and rice fields. Now a huge $25 million plant is rising in an empty meadow across the road from Baker's. When it opens next April, the Martco plant will churn scraps from southern hardwoods into 130 million...
...series of landmark cases that began with Gideon vs. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court ruled that any criminal facing a possible jail sentence was entitled to have an attorney. At the same time, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Administration began to provide millions of dollars to set up local legal services programs to handle such civil court problems of the poor as evictions, consumer complaints and fights with bureaucracies. Over the next decade and a half, the increasing commitment of Government to provide lawyers for the poor led some to note with acerbic exaggeration that only the very rich...
Barney Clark's heart was the least of his worries last week, and that was a welcome change. The air-powered artificial heart permanently implanted in place of his own failing organ continued to work perfectly, just as it had from the time of the landmark operation in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. The plastic pump clicked steadily at an unvarying 90 beats a minute as Clark made remarkable initial progress. And it pulsed without pause as Clark suffered, and survived, the first major setback in his recovery. The heart's unflagging performance led Dr. Chase Peterson...