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...professional zoologist, I have been profoundly disturbed by the disregard for the facts of the matter shown by so many other reviewers of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. I was heartened to read your discussion of this book, an outstanding example of objective journalism at its finest. JOHN C. FRANDSEN Auburn...
...associate myself with the general libertarian views in the Court's opinion. But as a member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard." During his early years on the Supreme Court, Frankfurter's judicial restraint operated as a liberal doctrine, opposing the court conservatives, who used strict constitutional interpretations as weapons against New Deal legislation. But under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court has leaned to sweepingly liberal interpretations of the Constitution...
...fact that Teddy's candidacy involves exploitation of the reputation of the President is arousing widespread resentment. Virtually everyone in public life has been approached by friends who are deeply troubled by the implications of nepotism and disregard of precedent in this candidacy. Their loss of respect for a President can have profoundly damaging effect upon his ability to lead the country. Congressmen feel that a President must have the moral authority to come to them and ask them, at least by implication, to set aside their personal interests in the national interest. Mr. Kennedy's toleration...
...high-risk driver's obvious faults are ill-concealed hostility lurking just below the surface, and an egocentric disregard for others' rights and feelings. Underlying these characteristics, say Drs. Miller and Conger, is dissatisfaction with his position in life and a lack of direction: he does not know where he is going, let alone how to get there. The high-risk driver is far more likely than others to act impulsively, and live in a world of fantasy...
...election, thought he saw in medicare a red-hot political issue with which to bludgeon his opponents and win votes for Democratic candidates in November. Though the American Medical Association far overstated the case by calling the medicare bill socialized medicine. Kennedy equated its opposition with callous disregard of elders' health. He bluntly said that he would get his way no matter what Congress did, and by insisting that medicare would be a partisan issue in the fall cam paign, solidified Republican opposition to it. To many - including some in his own party - he seemed to be more interested...