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...called for dismantling wage controls. Yet Brennan has gone along with the committee in the past and as Labor Secretary-and the committee's nominal boss-he is unlikely to try to undercut Dunlop. Both men realize that whatever progress has been made in unscrambling construction's chaotic pay pacts could only have been accomplished by forceful Government intervention in the bargaining process...
...cake!" At one point a defense attorney threw himself across a table and tearfully implored the judge: "Put me in jail, for God's sake, and get me out of this place." As for the judge, he addressed the defendants with irony and invective. Besides being almost unbelievably chaotic, the trial lasted five months and cost at least $2,000,000. One of the main charges against the seven antiwar activists: conspiring to cross state lines to create a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In the view of many legal scholars, the law involved is unconstitutional. Last...
...creates a sexual triangle among the coarse Rogochin, the passionate, misused and vengeful Natasha, and the sexless Myshkin, undercutting any examination of either problems, and throwing the focus on the Prince's inability to get it up rather than his inability to assert his gentle values in a morally chaotic atmosphere. He also doubts the ability of anyone conscious of existential loneliness to hold a consistent moral vision, since this ridiculous assumption comes out only in isolated rhetorical interludes, it is best forgotten...
Some of Peron's own aides, fearing violence, have called the trip "madness." Others feel that el Lider exerts far more power in exile than he could at home; Argentina's chaotic economy, saddled with inflation and vanishing export markets, might be too much for him to handle if he was to return to power in next year's election. Asked how long Peron plans to stay if he actually does return, an aide said that "it could be for a few days or for good." As a waffling afterthought, he added: "It will not be for a few hours...
...woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up?we're 3rd down and 85 yds. to go." More often than not, the press found itself in that same dilemma?playing catch-up ball in a sprawling, chaotic game. In retrospect, readers must be grateful that team members scored as many times as they...