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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last week, though, it was the turn of the "ultras"-Spain's hard-liners-and they struck back in force. Under strong pressure from army officers who filled newspapers with open letters denouncing "outrages committed by minorities," Franco called an emergency Cabinet meeting. The Cabinet invoked emergency powers that allow suspected troublemakers to be jailed for up to six months without trial. Meanwhile, the streets were taken over by what one pro-Franco newspaper, not very originally, called "the silent majority." In Burgos, where the five-man military court was still pondering the case-their decision...
...became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity; the result, a tumbling, rosy piglet of an angel, did not (even in Rubens' hands) quite make up in charm what it had lost in austere dignity. The path to the winged brat on the Christmas card was open...
...shaped, six-unit apartment building in southern Los Angeles. They purchased it last September, and converted it into a successful, middle-class (most of the men are lawyers) city commune. Knocking out walls and doors, they built interjoining apartments and a communal nursery, TV room and library. "The apartments open up so that the kids' rooms can run into each other," Ethel explains, "and yet there is still plenty of privacy for adults...
...over downfield defenders. There is little chance of avoiding him: a junior college hurdle champion and a high jumper who has cleared 6 ft. 6 in., he is literally all over the field. Whenever Michigan needed crucial rushing yardage this season, Dierdorf was the man called upon to blast open the hole. "He has great feet, agility and balance," says one scout. "He doesn't stumble or yield on pass blocking. He hangs in there...
...increasing monetary needs of an expanding economy." The following week. Burns, in a typically Delphic passage in a speech, left policywatchers guessing as to whether any such deal had been struck. Most common guess: no. Besides, Burns is only primus inter pares on the Reserve's twelve-man Open Market Committee, which regulates the money flow. A number of anti-inflation hawks on the committee, notably the New York Federal Reserve's Alfred Hayes, recently voted against faster expansion...