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AMERICA'S low tolerance for turmoil and its self-generated alienation from politics may well cause the trend towards one-man rule to accelerate so that executive rule becomes accepted in name as well as deed. One cannot afford to overlook the possibility that the illusion of republicanism will be dispensed with and that the United States will set out on the road of dictatorship and autocracy. It is not an enviable possibility, but a real possibility nevertheless...
...Lines. Nevertheless, Tax Analysts and Advocates, a public-interest, tax-law firm based in Washington, has challenged the write-off on a variety of grounds. The organization charges that the deed transferring the papers to the archives was signed by neither Nixon nor the General Services Administration but by a White House legal aide. The tax group also claims that the President did not clearly transfer "dominion and control" over the papers; there are restrictions on who can see them and quote from them...
Robert Frost wrote: "Only where love and need are one, and life is play for mortal stakes, is the deed ever really done for heaven's and the future's sakes." Marx said it would happen only when there are no painters, no landlords, no students, but only people, who among other things paint, keep house and study...
...past five years, Colorado authorities have been planning to build a new $22 million runway for Denver's Stapleton International Airport on about 600 acres of land belonging to the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal. The Army turned over the deed to the land in 1969, but as late as last May, it was forbidding jets to fly over the area because of unspecified "safety factors." Denver Mayor William H. McNichols finally went to Washington to find out what was causing the delay. He soon learned. Beneath the prospective flight approach, the Army still maintains a stockpile...
...tapes are considered to be private property, and personally embarrassing or harrassing material as well as sensitive foreign policy and defense matters are to be screened under the terms of the deed, Fenn added...