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...Democratic convention in Chicago have made the graying Miami Beach citizens (median age: 65) more than a little jittery. Fortunately, the coolest heads belong to those most directly involved in keeping the peace. The coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit of cooperation is matched by the leaders of the Youth International Party (YIP), the chief coordinators for the dozen or more radical groups massing for what one of their...
...month. Dr. James Fox of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn anesthetized Newman's throat by inserting needles in his hands and feet. With assistants, Fox then rotated the needles for 20 minutes while the patient gradually lost feeling. A small benign growth was then painlessly removed from the left tonsil. According to Newman, similar surgery performed several months earlier under a conventional topical anesthetic had caused him "excruciatingly sharp pain...
...effectively. As Labor Secretary, he encouraged businessmen to fight inflationary wage increases by taking labor strikes, notably the General Electric strike of 1969. This contributed to slowing the economy but had no significant effect on braking wage increases after the 8% G.E. settlement. Later, as budget chief, Shultz advocated "benign neglect" of the U.S. balance of payments problem. Nixon repudiated that advice on Aug. 15 by ending the convertibility of the dollar...
...believe that their own position, both economic and political, will ultimately be strengthened by improving relations with Western Europe -provided that those relations do not cause an erosion of Soviet power at home and in the East bloc. Accordingly, the Russians are seeking to present the image of a benign and reliable neighbor to Western Europeans, who fear an eventual U.S. military pullout and are eager to strike as favorable a deal as possible with the Russians while Moscow is still willing to bargain. The underlying Soviet political motive, however, is not exactly benign. It is to stabilize Europe along...
When President Bok last summer asked his assistant Steve Farber to study the various corporate responsibility proxy battles, there was reason to believe that the "benign neglect" policy of the Pusey Administration had come...