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...survey began March 16, the day that Kennedy announced his candidacy, and ended four days later, just before Nelson Rockefeller withdrew from the race. Even while the New York Governor was still considered a potential candidate, he ran a poor third in the Republican segment of the Roper poll, which gave Richard Nixon 73%, Ronald Reagan 9% and Rockefeller...
...guerrillas out, Hussein no longer has the power even to hold them in check. Last month he dispatched 20 carloads of troops and police to order a guerrilla unit to leave the refugee camp at Karamah. When it arrived, the column was surrounded by machine-gun-toting commandos, quickly withdrew when the fedayeen commander delivered a matter-of-fact announcement: "You have three minutes to decide whether you leave or die." The rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs for several thousand commandos. The Persian Gulf states...
...Magnificent Ambersons, drastically altered by RKO, or Touch of Evil, re-edited by Universal. Most tragic, Welles was sent in 1942 to South America to film a color documentary shortly after the completion of Citizen Kane; after Welles had shot thousands of feet of film, RKO withdrew financial support, recalled Welles, and put his uncut footage into the vaults. For years unidentifiable random shots from the film, It's All True, turned up as stock footage in Latin American thrillers, the only Welles color footage thereby becoming scattered and hopelessly lost...
This disappointing performance of Martin Peretz, Instructor in Social Studies, shows how this state of mind exists even among the more radical Faculty members. Peretz originally proposed the ban on military recruiting at the January 16 meeting, but later withdrew his support from the proposal. As chairman of the last meeting, he was reluctant to use the pressure of his position to bring the television motion to a vote. As a result, it was tabled...
Warmer Higher? The defense argued that the marriage had been on and off the rocks anyway. She testified that he had beaten her the year after they were married; she had filed for divorce in 1966, and then withdrew. Currently, another divorce suit is pending. More important, said the defense, was the fact that "the federal and state constitutions guarantee to all religious groups the right to hold and preach doctrines." If that guarantee is meaningful, then surely a church cannot be liable for the consequences of stating a specific belief...