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...there were improvised tables on sawhorses, manned by enthusiastic undergraduates and burdened with pamphlets and revolutionary literature. Students, many with the red strike symbol of a clenched fist silk-screened on their shirts, stood around in groups, arguing the issues, advancing theories as to the outcome. The trampled turf of the yard was littered with many of the 750,000 broadsides mimeographed by S.D.S. As one cynical grad student put it, "Getting the grass to grow again is more important than any of their demands...
Today the majority of Negroes probably agrees with the Roy Innis formula: they wish to consolidate their own turf and then decide on what terms they will participate in the larger American society. Tomorrow may bring more strife-or peaceful racial pride. Whatever the outcome, more and more local black leaders are bent on building black establishments and seeing that no one, black or white, burns them down. White Americans are well advised to provide every ounce of help they...
...fervently anti-Communist evangelist Billy James Hargis flew back from a crusade in Rhodesia to meet the invasion of his theological turf with a series of Christian-leadership meetings at which he roundly denounced the World Council as far left and ungodly. Despite a freezing rain, the Rev. Carl Mclntire of Collingswood, N.J., head of the extreme-right-wing International Council of Christian Churches, personally picketed Nikodim while he was delivering a sermon at Tulsa's First Christian Church. Another veteran anti-Red, the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, a Rumanian Lutheran pastor who spent 18 years in Communist prisons, interrupted...
...family's rambling Coral Gables mansion, a vast federal-state dragnet reached out for her kidnapers. Snatched from an Atlanta motel by Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann Schier and freed for a ransom of $500,000, Barbara Jane was found buried under 18 inches of Georgia turf in a coffin-like box. Snorkels to the surface allowed her to breathe during the 80-hour entombment...
...another, the injury is permanent. Even the most expertly reconstructed knee will loosen in time. And with age, arthritis is likely. The obvious answer is to avoid such injuries in the first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded...