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...dilatory and unsympathetic in his handling of civil rights cases is totally inaccurate. Judge Lawrence has administered the law in school integration, busing, the Civil Rights Act and civil liberties cases with scrupulous regard for the rights of the complainants, and his opinions are usually prepared with much greater dispatch than the briefs of the lawyers who argue the cases before...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson himself and not Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey who stepped up to the dispatch box in the House of Commons. In the ominous tones he reserves for grave occasions, Wilson told the House of the "economic catastrophe" facing the country. To reverse the tide of inflation (running at an annual rate of 28%) and to calm the jitters of foreign creditors who had caused the pound sterling to hit an all-time low, Wilson formally spelled out the details of Healey's proposed new program of wage, price and dividend controls (TIME, July...
Gunfire Exchanges. Outside Saigon, the Communists also have problems. A Tass dispatch from South Viet Nam last week confirmed that there have been frequent exchanges of gunfire a few miles north of Saigon between Communist troops and holdout ARVN units. This last-ditch resistance is likely to be short-lived; one member of an anti-Communist army group, in a letter to his family in Saigon, conceded that "we know we have no chance of winning, but we will fight anyway...
...most tired conventions is the one in which some latter-day cataclysm releases from an aeons-long sleep a monstrous prehistoric creature who rampages around for eight or nine reels until the combined brains of the military-scientific-industrial complex figure out a novel ploy to dispatch the thing...
Ford's office is inundated by requests for appearances anywhere and everywhere. Congressmen plead and threaten for audiences. And in the mail the other day came a dispatch from Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who has performed verbal lobotomies on many of the world's great men, the newswoman who warmly coaxed Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a kind of diplomatic Lone Ranger. Oriana Fallaci has found a place in her crowded schedule to request an interview with Jerry Ford...