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Given the EPA restrictions, City Councillor Walsh says he thinks underground parking could be a solution. "The land under the street belongs to the city, so I suppose we could get a private developer to do it and work out a deal to the benefit of the city and neighbors," Walsh says...
...quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests of all pregnant women, hospital patients between the ages of 15 and 60, convicted prostitutes and marriage-license applicants. Health officials have repeatedly said that such tests are not medically or economically worthwhile and risk driving the disease underground...
...effect that all comics would henceforth be as mild as milk toast. But just as the publishers promised sweetness and light, the '60s began to demand "relevance." What had Superman's crime fighting ever done about civil rights or Viet Nam? Youthful eyes turned to the work of "underground" comic artists like R. Crumb, whose heroes used and acted out words that would have shocked the irremediably respectable man of steel. Even in the swinging '60s, Superman's idea of a really strong expletive was "Great Scott...
...Nancy Reagan became concerned that her husband was not sufficiently alert to the political danger and arranged to have a few people brought in to explain things. To avoid publicity, the White House instructed the guests to report to the Treasury building. From there they were led through an underground tunnel to the adjacent White House. Robert S. Strauss, a former Democratic national chairman and also a frequent luncheon companion of the First Lady, was one of the group. He reports that he pulled no punches with the President. The result? Well, let Strauss describe it. "The President could...