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...doctor to accept his life at the cost of the prince's. Even so, the stagecraft is considerably less faulty than the logic. Miller has written an equation with a missing term-power. Power precedes responsibility. One is not accountable for events that one is powerless to avert or affect...
Voluntary Fund. Terrified of the prospect of a Russian walkout, the bulk of the U.N. membership has spent most of the year searching for a formula that might avert the crisis. A 21-nation working committee, followed by a four-nation "good offices committee," proposed a voluntary all-purpose peacekeeping fund so that Russia would not have to contribute directly to operations it considered illegal. The U.S. has offered a variety of minor concessions to Russian pride. So far, Russia's position has not changed. But Secretary-General U Thant was working hard to avoid a showdown, proposed delaying...
...Harvard professor who helped end a 39-day longshoremen's strike 20 months ago is hard at work in New York City trying to avert a similar walkout...
...same panel, with its chairman, Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), replaced by Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, is seeking to avert a new strike. The third member of the panel is Theodore W. Kheel, a New York lawyer and arbitrator...
...business failures, new orders of durable goods, construction contracts and stock prices. But these indicators proved wrong in 1962, leading economists into a false recession scare. Often, such warning signals also come too late for the Government and businessmen to have a chance to cushion the fall, or perhaps avert it entirely. Figures on industrial production and personal income, for example, only confirm what has already happened...