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Defense Testimony. LTV vowed to defend itself vigorously. Its officers dismiss concern about reciprocal trading by noting that business among LTV's ten subsidiaries has traditionally amounted to less than 1% of company sales. As for the supposed dangers of economic concentration, no one has yet proved that industrial bigness necessarily means badness. On the contrary, the U.S. has prospered in world trade precisely because of the relatively large size and resources of its companies. The takeover of Jones & Laughlin by an aggressive outsider like Jim Ling could prove something of a welcome stimulus to the clubby steel manufacturers...
...anthropologist," says one colleague, "she is not a Jesus. She is a St. Paul." Paul, of course, was not welcomed unequivocally by his fellow Christians, and for all her prestige, Dr. Mead is not considered beyond criticism by her colleagues. Younger anthropologists sometimes dismiss her broad field inquiries as no more substantial than "a wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith...
...dismiss Chairman Brown's objections as irrelevant even though you considered the same arguments as valid in the ROTC case. It seems, in your mind, that Roger Brown opposed the course "on political grounds." You conclude this from the alleged fact that opponents of Soc Rel 148-9 failed to talk with a "considerable number of students taking the course." Yet, again, in the ROTC cast you failed to mention that there was no investigation of contents of ROTC courses, distribution an rationality of marks, or effectiveness of University control...
...seems to me that you should admit in the case of Soc Rel 148-9 and in the ROTC dispute you use arguments about academic control and excellence to support what you like (abolition of ROTC) and dismiss them as irrelevant in campaigning against something you don't like (abolishment of Soc Rel 148-9). You should admit that you see both issues in political terms and that any talk about academic concerns are pure obfuscations...
Extremely severe judgments in military courts are common. It is a foregone conclusion that those who have been charged will appeal. The first step of the complicated but fairly liberal review procedure is the staff judge advocate, who can approve the sentence, reduce, or dismiss it. From there it goes to Washington. All this takes time, of course, which the accused must spend in prison, since there is no provision for bail in military law. However, despite the rigmarole of court-martial, there is little likelihood that any of the convicted "mutineers" will spend anything like 15 years in jail...