Word: notes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seminar was the inspiration of a liberal committee organized to defend 21 Black Panthers indicted last April for plotting to kill policemen and dynamite a police station, department stores and a railroad right-of-way. Ten of the suspects are being held in $100,000 bond each. The Panthers note angrily that only one of the three whites arrested for actually setting dynamite charges in Manhattan office buildings in November has bail set that high. The maestro and his wife Felicia, who have long been concerned with civil liberties, agreed to allow friends who were interested to gather at their...
Finally, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities took note of the fact that the overwhelming majority of those charged in the occupations of December 5 and 11 had no prior disciplinary records. This fact was weighted heavily in the decisions reached in individual cases...
...your "Top of the Decade" section in MEDICINE, you note that the Pill was approved for U.S. prescription use as an oral contraceptive in 1960. You fail to mention that in the closing weeks of the decade the British government's committee on safety of drugs urged pillmakers and doctors to stop dispensing 21 of 30 available brands (the British equivalent...
...catch a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, tipped an airline clerk $50 to phone a $2,000 bet to a bookie. It was altogether typical of Sober's luck that the horse lost and Internal Revenue Service agents who were following him acquired the note left with the clerk. Since Sportscaster and Hall of Fame Pitcher-Dizzy Dean introduced Sober to Dawson in 1967, the trucker has lost roughly...
...Even the Syndicate, the Congress Party's conservative branch, has taken note of the fact that the idea of socialism exerts irresistible magic in Indian politics. A week before Indira's faction met in Bombay, the rival Syndicate gathered in Ahmedabad and found it expedient to shift markedly to the left in its own economic sloganizing. Syndicate leaders, however, were seriously considering talks with a couple of right-wing Indian parties to form an anti-Indira coalition. In public, some of the faction's orators savagely attacked the Prime Minister. Mrs. Tarakeshwari Sinha, for example, won heavy...