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...idea-whether incisive, speculative, whimsical or preposterous. "We are trying to reach people's minds," says Goldman, "to rekindle the excitement you felt when you first encountered the great professor or the great book or the great concept." ID does not always work as a package. Covers infrequently compel, and the calculated clutter tends to overwhelm on occasion. Goldman concedes that his selection of content is "ultimately a terribly personal thing...
...Kennedy-backed medical-aid bill that authorized $225 million to train general practitioners. Nixon said the program was too expensive. Kennedy got Congress to appropriate money anyway, but HEW refused to spend it. Charging the Administration with derogation of the powers of Congress, Kennedy went to court to compel the two defendants to have the act officially published...
...expected, however, the conservative-minded Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week struck down the Merhige decision. It ruled that he had gone beyond the judicial authority of the courts and could not "compel one of the states of the union to restructure its internal government for the purpose of achieving racial balance." The appeals judges found Richmond's urban racial pattern to be similar to that of other U.S. cities but said: "Whatever the basic causes, it has not been school assignments, and school assignments cannot reverse the trend. That there has been housing discrimination ... is deplorable...
...confinement was not to be punishment, Garrity stressed, but a "sanction designed to compel answers" from Popkin. He added that Popkin had "the key in your pocket" to end the sentence at any time by consenting to provide the information...
...CONTRAST, the stories in Doctor Brodie's Report have a far more concrete and intimate flavor. They are tales, for the most part, of personal rivalries, of violence, of jealousy or of love. The events themselves are not impossible or fantastic, but somehow we feel that the forces that compel these events are subtly beyond the power of man's perception or the control of his reason...