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...hearing room was on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center. Margolin and I had to pass through three locked doors, guarded by University police. Wooden bars have been placed over the glass doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Day in the Life of the Rights Committee | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

...Stater on President Nixon's special investigative committee on slavery, President L. Gard Wiggins of Harvard, as "Mister Shingaling 37X Boogaloo or something...") brings suit against the Justice Department on the grounds that the administration's move violates the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth amendments to the Constitution. The Government argues that all said amendments are unconstitutional because Blacks weren't allowed to vote on them...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The FutureTea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...fear they may be in their graves before they reach the end of the interminable queues for services. Seeking an alternative, 2,000,000 Britons now pay for additional private medical insurance. The number has doubled in ten years, and private insurers predict that 5,000,000 people, a tenth of the population of England and Wales, will eventually be covered by their policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Private Alternative | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...first place, NASA's critics pointed out, ultraviolet radiation accounts for no more than a tenth of thz radiation from a galaxy. Thus, even a large increase in this component would not greatly affect a galaxy's overall brightness. Besides, modern astronomers always compensate for the "red shift" of light when viewing distant galaxies and quasars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deflating NASA's Universe | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Nixon's son-in-law, David Eisenhower, whose birthday came up 30th, is almost certain to be drafted. Harvard Senior Joseph Blatt learned on the same day that he was one of 24 members of his class chosen for membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and tenth in the lottery. He is almost sure to be called, as is Seth Grossman, chairman of the Duke University chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. "I support the war," he said, "but I like it better on TV." His date came up 14th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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