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...President in 1965, Humphrey has been a company man par excellence. Forsaking some of his old freewheeling ways, he moved closer to the seat of power. As whip, he had had the intense pleasure of leading the successful fight for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and other measures he had earlier promoted. The exchange of office finally paid off by giving him his present opportunity to run once more for the presidency...
...Commission and its defenders) all assume that whether it's true or not it is not bad to tell white America that it is bad to be racially prejudiced. They feel that white people may then be led to do things which are intended to right the wrong but,," Ban-intended to right the wrong. But," Banfield said, "citing Urban Renewal as an example, "their actions may have bad practical effects...
...Dinner. Apart from that, and Hanoi's natural decision to ban him from military areas, Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes...
...from California's Claremont Graduate School and is a lecturer at Howard University in Washington. She gained early notoriety as a Catholic controversialist with a 1964 article in the Saturday Evening Post called "Why I Believe in Birth Control," in which she argued that the church's ban on contraception was injurious to a healthy marriage. More recently, she has argued with equal vigor in favor of relaxing the church's ban on divorce and remarriage...
Several interesting arguments sum up the NRA's position on gun laws. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people," one of their pet phrases goes. Or, as one NRA member put it, "You can kill someone with a golf club--are you going to ban golf?" It is, of course, true that almost anything can be used as a murder weapon in an angry moment. But few potential weapons are as deadly quick or as accurate from a distance as the gun. Defense is possible against a golf club, but not against a bullet...