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...Playboy Antics." After whittling down the dollars, the Senators had some strong opinions on how the remaining money should be used. Minority Whip Tom Kuchel proposed that no funds should go to nations that try to assert exclusive fishing rights beyond the three-mile off-shore limit recognized by the U.S. "What has happened off the coast of South America is positively shocking," said Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, referring to harassment of U.S. fishermen by Ecuador, Chile and Peru. "It is time for the United States to crack down hard." The amendment carried...
Craig's next stop was French Lick, Ind. Speaking to the Indiana bar association, he argued that the lawyer's ethical responsibilities go beyond mere observance of the rules in the code of professional ethics. The lawyer must be "a guardian of due process," must "assert leadership in the struggle to maintain the philosophy of freedom under law," must accept a responsibility to help "educate our young people to the merit and genius of our complex form of Government...
Secondly, there is a small body of students who assert that nothing effective can now be done to avert a bloody clash between Black and White nationalisms. These students believe that a situation analogous to Algeria will ultimately develop in South Africa, and that in the end the present White racist government will be supplanted by a harsh Black racist government. These students leave the country or lapse into cynicism...
Ironically, the union soon had a rival in reforming zeal: a lively new Board of Education, born of construction scandals that had sent the old board packing. But in trying to assert its power, the new board confronted a union mentality that distrusted "management" and seemed more obsessed with pay than pedagogy. Union demands soon demonstrated the fallacy of the idea that the board is management, for the board has no power of the purse and does not control its assets. It must appeal for money to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state...
...baron, and his ancestors for centuries before him were zamindars. In his youth he lived carelessly on inherited wealth, imagining that it would last forever. But the rising middle class was not careless, and soon some of the zamindar's neighbors were richer than he. Partly to assert his superiority, partly to gratify his passion for music, he took to regaling his acquaintances at lavish musical evenings. When his dutiful wife warned him that it was costing too much to pay the piper, he waved her away. "If I cut corners I shall lose face...