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...most pressing needs. Therefore to oppose the tax hike in protest to the war in Vietnam serves merely to desert vital programs. The President has made his opinion clear that the war, though costly, is vital to American interest. To disagree with this priority is admirable; but to disregard it is unrealistic and stupid...
Indeed, it could be argued that in their independence of material possessions and their emphasis on peacefulness and honesty, hippies lead considerably more virtuous lives than the great majority of their fellow citizens. This, despite their blatant disregard for most of society's accepted mores and many of its laws-most notably those prohibiting the use of drugs-helps explain why so many people in authority, from cops to judges to ministers, tend to treat them gently and with a measure of respect. In the end it may be that the hippies have not so much dropped...
What offends, perplexes and yet also beguiles the straight sector is hippie-dom's total disregard for approbation or disapproval. "Do your own thing," they say, and never mind what anyone else may think or do. Yet this and many hippie attitudes represent only a slight and rather engaging distortion of the Protestant Ethic
...Sullivan four years ago, the Supreme Court laid down tough constitutional limitations on libel recoveries by public officials. "A defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct," ruled the court, must be "made with 'actual malice'-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." So much for public officials. But what of persons very much in the public eye, though not public officials? They too play an important part in shaping the course and creeds of the country. Should not the press be permitted to write about...
...stable), GATT's British director general, Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers," said Wyndham White, "can no longer pursue their destinies in disregard of others. Still less can they seek solutions to their economic problems by narrow nationalistic policies. Nor can one escape the impact of the economic difficulties of the others." The crucial compromises...