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...women were punched into the club two years ago, but were refused membership when several influential alumni withdrew their financial support because of the incident, Shofner said...
...spring of 1977, the Justice Department stepped up its efforts to return Vesco to the U.S. The department withdrew its request for his extradition and urged Costa Rica instead to expel him, hoping to nab him as he crossed the border. The strategy misfired. When Costa Rican President-elect Rodrigo Carazo threatened to cut off the financier's residence privileges, Vesco escaped to the Bahamas, where he now resides, safe from extradition...
...about anything new or different and resembles the passionate, unthinking hostility that greeted powered looms, steam engines, railroads, automobiles and other technological advances. Much of the antipathy is emotional, the product of a "Hiroshima mentality" that equates nuclear power with bombs and seeks to ban both. Since the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, resistance to nuclear power has become the new crusade for many members of a society that otherwise lacks compelling causes. Nuclear power is an inviting target for those who revolt against bigness-big science and technology, big industry that must build and manage reactors, big government that...
...parent company's board. But last summer, after 278 blacks and coloreds had signed papers to have dues deducted for a union, they were invited to the company's welfare department and asked if they understood what they had done; most of the workers subsequently withdrew their dues deduction, and the unionizing effort stalled. By way of explanation, Rodney G. Ironside, GM's personnel director in South Africa, declared that the company only wanted to help the employees: "There are 114 ways a black can be relieved of his money and GM is not going...
After the blessing, with the bells of St. Peter's ringing loudly, the new Pope met the rising applause with a wave and a wide, yet almost shy smile. He withdrew, but three minutes later, at the insistence of the continuing applause, the new Pope appeared again. The 110 Cardinals, crowded together on the lateral loggias flanking the central balcony on the basilica façade, smiled happily. John Paul lifted his hands slowly in the papal gesture and smiled once again, this time more radiantly, less shyly...