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Despite his blunt language when aroused, Ervin is a compassionate man who has conducted his many committee hearings with courtesy and respect for witnesses. The transcripts are replete with phrases like "I am very much impressed by your statement" or "I want to congratulate you on the very lucid manner in which you stated your views." That is partly why Ervin seems to be the ideal Senator to hold those potentially volatile hearings on the many ramifications of Watergate...
Meat Lust. More ominously, George Meany said after the ceiling was announced that unless there is a general rollback on prices, labor will consider Phase III "inequitable." That was a blunt warning that unions, angered by price rises, may well be encouraged to make excessive demands in the contract negotiations that get under way in the next few months in the rubber, trucking, electrical and auto industries. If labor wins big wage boosts, Nixon will be confronted again with the specter of inflation. He would have to make an unhappy choice: either he would have to impose a wage freeze...
...State for Northern Ireland, characterized the British government's proposals that were presented last week in an attempt to end the agony of Ulster. That was a reasonable appraisal. As Whitelaw, principal architect of the plan, conceded: "We knew we couldn't please everyone." Yet by being blunt in places and vague in others, the proposals offered almost everyone something. Reason, however, has repeatedly been a casualty in Northern Ireland...
...deferring to faculty opinion, Oppenheimer prevented open warfare. Not so Kaysen. Now 53, he is a blunt, graying man who once taught economics at Harvard. Fresh from five years of advising Presidents Kennedy and Johnson on national security and disarmament, he succeeded Oppenheimer in 1966. The switch from scholar-intellectual to action-intellectual offended many of the mathematicians. Even worse, Kaysen and the trustees announced that they intended to found a New School of Social Sciences. "We know more about the atom than about ourselves," Kaysen says, "and the consequences are everywhere to be seen...
Their deliberations are immensely complicated by the blunt fact that, heavily traveled as the Atlantic route is, there is still not enough business to enable all of the 2 1 scheduled and score or so of nonscheduled carriers flying it to prosper. Meanwhile, confusion over fares is soaring. Travelers planning spring and summer vacations overseas are being forced to make reservations without knowing just how much they will eventually have to pay, and thus what they can afford to spend on the ground...