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...President who thinks he can exist with grace from this twenty-year error is a President who, when confronted with the possibility of the look of defeat-resurgence of the Communists, collapse of "Vietnamization"-will balk and grope for new "protective reaction," new flexing of the muscle, new acts of bravado, new targets of opportunity, new military adventure, up to and including, I deeply fear, the threat of the use of tactical nuclear weapons. There will always exist, waiting in the wings as an anguished President frets, persuasive peddlers of new ways to "win" this unwinnable...
...still uncertain whether Merrill Lynch will absorb Goodbody by itself, or sell some Goodbody offices to other firms. Such sales would please both federal trustbusters and some competitors who grumble about how much bigger the Goodbody bail-out will make Merrill Lynch. Some exchange members may balk at voting for the assessment but,if necessary, officers of 35 wealthy firms are ready to round up the money themselves...
...Rubicam's modest plea for funds for "a small park in Harlem" was greeted with sufficient donations for five parks. Leo Burnett Co., Inc.'s warning on environmental hazards resulted in requests for more than 300,000 reprints. The very first ad in the series, Savitt Tobias Balk Inc.'s reflections on the meaning of Independence Day, drew immediate requests for 10,000 reprints. The ad was used in a civil liberties case and recently won the Freedoms Foundation George Washington Medal of Honor...
...Russia?" To prevent unauthorized publication of his works in the West, he has repeatedly and vainly asked the Soviet Writers' Union to protect his author's rights. Now that he has been expelled from the union, Solzhenitsyn has engaged a Swiss lawyer, Fritz Heeb, to balk what he regards as "the exploitation and distortion" of his work by publishers in the West. In Zurich last week, Heeb told TIME: "Solzhenitsyn has no intention of becoming the easy prey of unscrupulous publishers. He intends to take legal action, if necessary, to prevent the misuse of his name...
This newspaper has had its differences of opinion with President Nixon concerning the Vietnam War, but we do regard him as a well-intentioned man who will ulitmately balk at proposals to sell millions of Southeast Asians into bondage. We do believe that he intends to honor our treaty commitments, and that he genuinely- albeit mistakenly- is now convinced that the enemy will become reasonable when the enemy senses that there is nothing to be gained by stalling at the peace negotiations...