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...unanswerable, though they reach toward one of the crucial is sues of Viet Nam - the extent to which a democracy can wage a war not supported by the national will, and the extent to which such a will can be manipulated. In any case Historian Pogue proves beyond cavil that George Catlett Marshall was that relative rarity in military history, the right man in the right place at the right time. ∙Mayo Mohs
...ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil from the Administration or Congress. Last week, after a complaining letter from J. Edgar Hoover, PBS timorously ordered the deletion of a Dream Machine segment that accused the FBI of hiring operatives to foment bombing in order to entrap left-wing coconspirators. The material was not daringly muckraking in that...
...Executive Branch, who wield increasing power over the lives of Americans. Such scrutiny falls to the press, which must be unhindered in its honest endeavor to seek out the truth. This pursuit surely outranks the squeamishness and even the reputations of public officials?unless it can be proved beyond cavil that the national interest is seriously endangered. And that takes a lot of proving...
...convention hall who had been duly elected to represent the people. Police protection for the rights and property of others. Police protection for those who still believe in law and order and who will not be frightened or bullied by impassioned militants who pursue the right to protest but cavil at constructive cooperation. This same police protection, in the past, kept the crime rate down and made juvenile delinquency almost nonexistent...
...champions of equal rights for women cavil. In 1964, granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...