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...even mishandles some of his own ill-conceived notions about the assassination. The manuscript is peppered, for example, with snide, venemous, often fantastic references to both the city of Dallas and the person of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas, Manchester argues, epitomizes all the noisome features of American life which buttress lawlessness and unreasoning violence. Because the city was Oswald's home base, Manchester constantly seems to imply that Dallas supported and encouraged Oswald's instability and volatility--that the wickedness of the city had something to do with the wickedness of the individual. But the argument is never made explicit...
Apparently unaware of the President's plans and intentions themselves, the members of the Administration have been reduced to making meaningless and sometimes embarrassing noises in public. Last week Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor predicted an expanding economy, but the only cliché he dared use to buttress his faith was that the Government would continue "a sound mix of fiscal and monetary policies." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, attacking reports of a "credibility gap" in the Administration, questioned the credibility of the press in reporting budgetary news-of which there has been precious little...
...joined the party in 1933, but had become disillusioned the next year and remained inactive after that. He insisted that he was drafted into Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry in 1940 and served only in a minor position in the section that beamed broadcasts abroad. To buttress his statement, he released a wartime document in which a Nazi informer had denounced him to the Gestapo for sup pressing anti-Jewish material on broad casts to the U.S. and for harboring liberal ideas...
...Congress they will have no hopes of expanding minimum-wage laws or repealing the Taft-Hartley Act's Section 14B, which permits states to ban the union shop. Labor will be put in the defensive position-unique in recent years-of fighting off legislation to bar strikes and buttress the battered wage-price guidelines...
...ideal, Milgram points out, is to actually go to the cities, to "buttress raw data with observation. Measurement without perception leads to a caricature." One of his thesis advises, for example, has studied the willingness of Parisians to help stranded tourists. He and a native Frenchman spent a summer asking random passers-by for directions (in French) and comparing the frequency of helpful answers. It was higher for the Frenchman...