Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Thomas R. Bailey '73 and Emily T. Huntington '70 were arrested in Boston November 14, and Daniel P. Veach '70 surrendered himself to the police two days later. Their trial is set for December 22 at Third District Court...
...suggest that someone roundup a pack of these utterly inhuman creatures who foxhunt by snowmobile, set them loose in unfavorable terrain, and pursue them with a snowmobile, or whatever, until they drop from exhaustion and die. And let them rot where they fall. Such living carrion are not worth burying...
Intolerable Noise. In an effort combining both professional and amateur lobbying, they besieged Senators from all over the country-excluding almost none, not even diehard SST backers. Their message: the SST was patently a luxury for the jet set, saving inconsequential hours at huge cost, and potentially a lethal one for everyone. It might pollute the upper air, even cause skin cancer by hampering the formation of the ozone layer that filters out ultraviolet sunlight, create intolerable noise at airports and monstrous, destructive sonic booms while it was airborne. Finally, they argued, it would take millions of dollars that could...
...proposal would probably have less impact on the House, however, where committees are much larger and where the Democrats have no fewer than four of the 65-and-over set patiently waiting to take the place of Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, 65, on the Armed Services Committee. But the plan would at least give the rank and file some leeway in picking its leaders. More important, it would put a chairman on notice that he held his post by approval and not by right...
...President's words irritated a sizable number of U.S. Senators who want to end, or at least reduce, the 25-year-old American military presence on the Continent and let Europe meet its own conventional defense needs. Opponents of this view argue that a U.S. withdrawal would set in motion the "Finlandization" of the Continent, prompting its countries to work out accommodations with Moscow from positions of weakness. Nonetheless, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's resolution calling for a substantial reduction has already been co-sponsored by 50 of his colleagues. He is expected to introduce it some...