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...blunter: a soldier must disobey an order that "a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know to be illegal...
...mining on public lands can only benefit the few at the expense of the many. Says former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall: "The report is a long labor that leaves you right back where you started from." Executive Director Thomas L. Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation is even blunter. "In 1930," he says, "such recommendations would have been unacceptable. In 1970, they are incredible...
Other neighbors raised blunter objections: the project would, they said in effect, spoil the neighborhood by bringing in more people, more traffic, and large modern buildings, and perhaps at a later date, even commercial developments...
...very wideband set of sensors for acquiring information, a built-in memory and a computer better than our best machine, and a remarkably versatile capability for action and physical operations." Wernher Von Braun, the father of the German V-2 and a pioneer in the U.S. space effort, is blunter. "The space program is the first time we could keep the cutting edge of science and technology sharp without having a major war," he declares. "Goddammit, does it take another war to get technology up to a higher plateau...
...Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma and William Saxbe of Ohio, had been sent copies. But the three said they had not received them before they left on the trip. Although committee staffs habitually do spadework prior to such tours, the Kennedy staff went further into detail than most and was blunter than it might have been in laying down conclusions and stage directions before the trip even began. Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Howard W. Pollock, Alaska Republicans, stuck with the tour and somewhat blunted the G.O.P. charges against Kennedy. Asked about alleged G.O.P. Policy Committee pressure on him to quit...