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Will Harry Truman this year receive the honorary degree that he has been waiting 25 years to pick up? That is the very question that honorary degree trend watchers have been asking themselves all week, to no avail...
...think tanks, and the government. If we want general participation in policy analysis and execution, effective means of participation must be supplied. Although steps have been taken in this direction by particular think tanks, the government and all analyst groups should provide means through which interest groups can avail themselves of the analysis. There must be an opening of channels of communication between the think tanks and the citizens whom their decision affect...
...Esther Peterson "appeals" to the consumer to pass up high-priced meats in favor of fish, fowl and eggs. I have been boycotting high-priced items for months now, not by choice, but out of necessity-and to no avail. The choice of foods I can afford is becoming increasingly limited. Maybe by the time I start comparing dog-food labels for nutritional content, the Government will have started really doing something about this deplorable situation...
...threats and demands were to no avail. The government refused to budge, and public opinion was running strongly against the gauchistes. Perhaps fearful of stiff prison sentences should they be caught with Nogrette, the kidnapers turned their hostage loose two days after the abduction. While Nogrette was unharmed by his ordeal, the revolutionaries were politically hurt by what President Georges Pompidou called "an unspeakable act worthy of a country of savages." As the Communists predicted, "I'affaire Nogrette" may well have given the law-and-order-Gaullists new ammunition against the left...
Williams has said, "I was brought up puritanically. I try to outrage that Puritanism." As a dramatist, he sometimes practices a reverse puritanism by preaching salvation through the big stud. This holy devil can redeem parched, inhibited and neurotic women, but those who do not avail themselves of his service, like shy, strait-laced Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, seal their doom...