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...counter-complaint charged that she had failed to turn over a deed to one of the Brookes' properties. The senator said he needed the title to secure a loan in order to meet his obligations under the divorce settlement
Blumenthal also pledged "a very tight fiscal policy," and in deed reinstated balancing the federal budget by fiscal 1981 as an Administration goal. That did not satisfy Alan Greenspan, former chairman of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers. He lamented that basic functions of government at all levels have been broadened over the past several decades "with no internal rational limiting process," generating irresistible pressures to spend. The only solution he could see is a constitutional amendment enforcing budget limits...
...that the bride's family is any bargain. They seem to be collateral relatives of the Snopeses. If the bride's sister has not been made pregnant by the groom, then the deed was done by one of his 20-odd barracks mates from the military academy. Her uncle is a fundamentalist minister who got the call from God speaking through a Holiday Inn TV set. Her mother spends much of the wedding day arranging to meet an absurdly romantic uncle of the groom's in a motel across from a Dairy Queen in Tallahassee...
...that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force of society's anger for his deed. It is surely not communal revenge...
...qualified to be his biographer." This begs a question. The problem with Schlesinger's book is not that he finds no evil in Kennedy. His case for R.F.K.'s virtues-compassion, puritanical fair-mindedness, personal and professional decency, courage-is amply supported by word and deed and is thoroughly convincing. Difficulties arise because Schlesinger is not content to leave it at that. He must also find evil (at worst) or stupidity and incompetence (at best) in all those who opposed Bobby or who stood...