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...system had been in place for more than two years, with no attempts at enforcement; federal officials were growing hungry for blood, and probably wanted to snap first in the summer, when colleges and protestors would be safely on vacation. But the cumber-some cross-checking would have taken too long, so they proceeded with euphemistically labeled "passive enforcement"--going only after vocal violators...
...young aide to the President does not hesitate to quarrel with the Chief Executive when their views on the environment clash. "He's on pretty thin ice sometimes," says Jack Ford, 23, the ardent skier and mountain cumber. "But I guess I'm too critical...
...actual figures for the scholarships proposals (140,000 $200-100 grants) in fact, were derived explicitly from a federal study-Project Talent-which revealed the large cumber of qualified high school graduates who were not going to college because of financial reasons. Statistics beat out the logic of the present approach, as well. In 1960, while 78 percent of high school graduates from families with incomes of $12,000 or more went on to college, only 33 percent of those in the $3000-or-less range continued...
...Russians knew that the cumber some mass of Russian arms could not roll far beyond Russia's borders. One-third of the Red Army was already demobilized (see FOREIGN NEWS), and millions more would soon be returning to farms and fac tories. Russia's prospects of expansion by world revolution had seldom been slim mer. All over Europe, men looked else where than toward Communism for a kind of security and dignity that their prewar systems had failed to insure them. In consequence the Communist parties, far from being all-powerful or irresistible, were on the defensive...
...good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last is a device belated in its formulation and likely to cumber the earth long after it has ceased to be useful...