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Back in the benign 1950s, Americans looked on the atom as a friend, a cheerful Reddy Kilowatt that would provide cheap, abundant electricity to run their factories, power their TV sets and even chill the beer they drank while watching them. Today much of this enthusiasm has not only evaporated but turned into antipathy. Antinuclear activists have slowed construction of power plants from Seabrook, N.H., to Diablo Canyon, Calif. Angry people in Texas, New Mexico and Washington have packed public meetings to protest government plans to use their areas for nuclear-waste disposal and to demand the removal of wastes...
...pressmen were to survive this skirmish, the papers would no doubt be laying for them next time, and papers in other cities might eventually join the war. The pressmen are in a sense the last casualties in the newspaper industry's long, wrenching and inevitable shift from benign, family-dominated management to the more bloodless, efficient and profit-minded imperatives that other industries adopted decades ago. The pressmen, meanwhile, will continue to resist?and grow old. The News's Frank Boylan endured the rigors of the pressroom for 13 years before making the rank of journeyman. By the time...
...fanatic or an absolutist, declared Farber during his contempt trial before Judge Theodore Trautwein. But, he added, "I believe the First Amendment means what it says about freedom of the press." Editorialized the Times: "A court, no matter how benign, is to us an arm of the state. A promise to protect a source is a promise to protect it against any third party...
Though the occupation may be, as Israel argues, "as benign as such a military operation can be," it was encouraging to have the article present the other side of the coin-the implications and ramifications of the emotionally debilitating presence of the Israeli occupation troops...
Brennan agreed that racial preference could not be condoned simply on the grounds that it was being undertaken for benign purposes. But he thought the Davis program for minority applicants was justified. It aimed to remedy "substantial and chronic underrepresentation" of minorities in the field of medicine. No proof is needed, said the Justice, to show that those who benefit from the program have been victims of discrimination. They fall within a "general class" of people who have suffered discrimination. Whites, it is true, are excluded from the program, but they are not stigmatized...