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...Letters from prisoners around the country come to HVD with fragmentary stories of what has happened to them and asking for help. A student writes up a report of what can be found out about the case and if sufficient merit is found, HVD's faculty advisor, Livingston Hall, Pound Professor of Law, contacts local counsel to whom the briefs and papers can be forwarded. When the research discloses no need to pursue the case, Hall writes the prisoner to inform him of HVD's decision...
...belting because of its light weight and great strength. The big beneficiaries have been the producers of fiber glass and polyester-notably Owens Corning and PPG Industries. To compete with them, Du Pont has recently come in with a superstrong synthetic called Fiber B, but at $2 a pound it is much costlier than fiber glass, which goes for 780 a pound...
...most promising new belting materials is steel wire. It resists temperature and fatigue better than synthetic fibers, and at 550 a pound the price is right. Only one U.S. firm, National Standard, produces tire wire for the domestic market, and its capacity is 10 million Ibs. a year. All together, 100 million Ibs. of wire would be needed to make steel-belted tires standard equipment on all new cars...
Wenderoth noted that the U.S. is using parachutes to improve the accuracy of 15.000 pound bombs, which it is now dropping on North Vietnamese troops for the first time. "Getting out of the war doesn't stop the whole problem," Wenderoth said. "The problem is the so-called American mentality," which he added, involves our unwillingness to examine our own responsibility...
While one man distracted her, Roscoe said, the other two removed the 18-inch, 50-pound bust from its pedestal and placed it in a green book bag. Before she realized what had happened, he added, the men had left. In place of the bust, the secretary discovered a large potato, decorated to look like a man, sitting on top of a black...