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...Moses continued "believes that the essence of the Federal system is the cooperation between Federal and local officials," he continued. "But what happens when local law enforcement officers refuse to cooperate? What happens when the sheriff is a murderer? The answer is what has occurred in Mississippi--the complete breakdown of a system of justice...
Enough Elegance. The tables will be revised every two or three years to register changes in the economy. Professor Leontief would like to see a further breakdown of the economy into 450 to 500 industries, feels that some federal statistics from which the tables are drawn are wanting (TIME, July 10). But he is pleased that his idea has been brought to the point where "the technician, not the philosopher, is needed. The tables will help end all the elegant economic theorizing that has up to now been done with too little data," he says. He is probably 85.6% correct...
...hospital for two years, recovering from a nervous collapse. For Beckmann, the war was a rehearsal for the Apocalypse. In the torn bodies he carted away from the battlefront, he personally witnessed the horror and agony which announced not only the end of the nineteenth century but also the breakdown of Western Christendom. Thirty-four years later, suffering from the heart condition that would end his life, he wrote to his son: "Could it be...that my pains are still connected to the injuries of the soul I suffered during...
...first post-war poll, in 1948, clearly indicated that things were changing around Harvard. Although Dewey got 52 per cent of the vote, the University split its vote schizophrenically. The breakdown...
...report faults the FBI for failure to issue warnings about Oswald after his return from Russia. It charges the Dallas Police Department with several ineptitudes, including "the security breakdown which led to Oswald's death." It accuses the horde of "news media" people who descended on Dallas after Kennedy's assassination of helping create the chaos that made Oswald's death possible...