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...will not be a legislative President but an executive President, exploring those areas where he is sovereign and has to contend least with a Congress controlled by Democrats. A long time ago, he sat in his Wall Street lawyer's office, cramped and yearning, and he said a President should worry first about war and peace. He has not changed, despite the necessities of domestic political dialogue...
...those close to Ethel and to the life she has reconstructed regard her with something approaching awe. She has, they contend, emerged in many ways as the most remarkable member of her remarkable family. New York's Senator Jacob Javits describes her with absolute conviction as "the greatest of the Kennedys, male or female...
...sleep has little to do with certain kinds of wide-awake learning; adults who are deprived of REM, for example, show little or no decline in their ability to think logically or memorize. Nonetheless, Psychoanalyst Greenberg and Dr. Louis Breger of San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute contend that the dreams of REM promote a special kind of "emotional" learning. They believe that most dreams are unconscious responses to recent, emotionally intense experiences. If people are forced to go without REM sleep and its dreams, their ability to handle similar stress experiences the next day declines...
...Government Department had previously decided to end the junior essay--a four-day take-home exam at the beginning of Spring reading period--starting next year. The students contend that it should be discontinued this year because the events of the past two weeks have made the small amount of studying time left before exams much more necessary...
Although the union leadership later claimed credit for the bill's passage, dissident members contend that aging Ray Humphreys, president of U.M.W.'s District 17, reflects the real attitude at the union's sumptuous Washington headquarters. Says Humphreys: "I guess we did let the sons of bitches get us behind the eight ball...