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...Detroit last week U.S. District Court Judge Damon Keith handed down an astonishingly stiff decision in what may become a landmark discrimination case. Ruling that the Detroit Edison Co. (the nation's eleventh largest utility) had systematically discriminated against blacks in hiring and advancement in a manner he labeled "deliberate and by design," Keith awarded the plaintiffs in the case a whopping $4,000,000 in punitive damages-believed to be the largest award of its kind ever in a job discrimination case. "Since these defendants have been extremely obdurate and intransigent in their determination to implement and perpetuate...
...group they most assuredly did not want trouble with was the Lavender Panthers, a stiff-wristed team of gay vigilantes who have taken to the streets of San Francisco to protect their confreres against just such attacks. Formed by the Rev. Ray, a Pentecostal Evangelist and known homosexual who himself was once beaten severely outside his gay mission center, the Panthers patrol the streets nightly with chains, billy clubs, whistles and cans of red spray paint (a substitute for forbidden Mace). Their purpose, as the Rev. Ray candidly puts it, is to strike terror in the hearts of "all those...
...Anxiety (for which, in 1948, he became the first foreign-born poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize), he offered a repetitive, four-character charade running through all the ages and spiritual stages of modern man. Few are charming, none are fruitful, all are lonely and stiff with daily dread. And at each turning, each character is unable to feel the flash of faith, or even the modest touch of terrestrial love...
After months of playing Martha Mitchell's outbursts against John Mitchell's stiff upper lip, followers of the drama are now convinced that the end game has begun. In a phone call to U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas, Martha said that the former Attorney General had left their Manhattan apartment for a destination unknown to her. Winzola McLendon, a friend of Martha's who stayed with her after John's departure, revealed that the couple were communicating only through their lawyers. As for Martha's allegedly disturbed state of mind, the lady spoke for herself...
...inflation that it has brought, may wind up doing some good. For much too long, Americans have considered land to be a cheap resource that could be squandered. Today land is becoming too expensive to be treated in that manner. Now that Americans have to pay a stiff price for it, they may begin to treat land with the respect that it deserves...