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...considerable body of opinion that the recovery, whenever it begins, will be slow and struggling -"saucer-shaped" rather than "V-shaped," in the argot of the chartists. Some reasons for that expectation: the avowed intention of the Government to permit only a gradual growth of money supply and the likelihood that many individual investors, burned badly for the first time in their lives in the current bear market, will think long and hard about buying stocks again. Jim Fitzgerald, a Los Angeles broker, says that his customers have expressed "sheer disbelief" that the stock market could drop as much...
Martian Microbe. Though the effort to reduce the likelihood of such failures could delay next October's flight of Apollo 14, NASA Administrator Thomas Paine thinks that the moon program can be kept on schedule. Indeed, the space agency got some rare encouragement to press ahead with Apollo from an often critical scientific community. Reporting puzzling age differences in lunar dust gathered at the Ocean of Storms and at the Sea of Tranquillity, Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg made a strong plea at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union for continued manned lunar exploration. "The moon," he told...
...Panthers have reiterated that they want the demonstrations to be peaceful, but many people in the ghetto, skeptical of ??? likelihood of police restraint, are ??gripped with fear...
...Merits. There is little likelihood that Blackmun will be criticized for his judicial philosophy or specific decisions. Liberals may wish that he had shown more willingness to break new judicial ground; he has tended to shy away from interpretations of law not already sanctioned by the Supreme Court. On the highest bench, there can be no passing the buck, and most observers expect Blackmun to prove a highly independent justice. The court has yet to pass upon one of his most significant decisions: his refusal in 1968 to overrule the death sentence of an Arkansas black convicted of raping...
...time that the situation threatened "grave danger of loss of life." Later, marshals were allowed to enter the building to serve subpoenas on nine of his men. A few hours after that performance, Kirk, his aides, his troopers and his plainclothesmen all deserted the place and there was little likelihood that they would be coming back. Fed up with the Governor's grandstanding, Judge Krentzman formally cited Kirk for contempt and told him to get out of the way of the busing plan or face fines...