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...goods and services. By making U.S. products costlier and less competitive on world markets, it has also hurt the nation's bal ance of payments. Inflation's grip is so tenacious that it will undoubtedly take all of the Government's weapons and will to curtail it for any sustained period...
There is no restriction, in principle, to the actions one may choose. Thus you cannot say that the principle of free speech for everybody is inviolate. Under certain circumstances it is perfectly right and proper to curtail free speech. When George Wallace spoke at Dartmouth, students did everything in their power to try to stop him. As it turned out they had sufficient power to succeed in preventing him from speaking. At a Southern school they might not have had enough. It is all a question of power. Should an "ungenuine" man -- and there are many of these around despite...
...made him one of Washington's most successful lawyers. Finally, he decided that a further buildup was madness. A subsequent trip to Saigon confirmed his suspicion that South Viet Nam's government wanted no part of a peace that would oblige them to risk political concessions and curtail the comforts of U.S. military protection and cash...
...United States Olympic Committee attempted to curtail their "political" activities during high altitude training, accused them of trying to "disrupt the team," and then planned to send coxswain Paul Hoffman home for alleged complicity in the Smith-Carlos black power protest the night before the final race. If Hoffman had been judged guilty of conspiring, it is probable that the U.S. would not have entered a boat in the finals since individuals on Harvard's crew were not willing to row without...
Many fear that this move would eliminate the political buffer--the regents--which has separated students and politicians up to this time. The ensuring witch-hunts would probably encourage faculty to leave and seriously curtail academic freedom. It would most certainly contribute to the growing bad reputation that Berkeley has accured as a result of previous interference by the politicians...