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KPFT Manager Larry Lee figures, without much hope, that the station's future depends upon the capture and stiff sentencing of its assailants. But in its adversity, KPFT has won new and widespread supporters of its own. The Houston Post ran an editorial condemning the sabotage as "a throwback to barbarism reminiscent of the book burning of Hitler's Germany." The Post has also offered a $1,500 reward for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits...
...regulating everything from housing to broadcasting, have been delinquent in pressing for an end to racial exclusion. So lackadaisical has been enforcement that such landmark bills as the Fair Housing Law of 1968 and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are practically null in some instances. The commission leveled particularly stiff criticism at agencies that regulate some of the country's largest industries, including the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...varsity games, Langer averaged 4.1 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. During last year's controversial season, the 6-8, 220 lb, center was beaten out of his starting job, and Langer also faced stiff competition for a starting position this winter...
Since the Austrian line is an ardent suitor, the canny Swiss are exacting a stiff price. As a dowry, the Austrians would have to supply the combined line with a fleet of nine jets to be bought by AA with a $76 million loan backed by the Vienna'government. A bill guaranteeing the loan has been introduced in the Austrian Parliament, but not yet passed. Once that considerable detail is taken care of, negotiations are expected to move ahead in earnest, and the two lines could begin to practice their special kind of togetherness by April...
...presumably kept out of reach of children and would-be suicides-must be turned, a button pushed and the door closed before it will work. The machine had a successful test run last fall in Houston, Atlanta and New Orleans, few prospective customers seemed upset over the somewhat stiff purchase price...