Word: efforts
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...less stringent terms the desire to separate the university from politics. "The task is to depoliticize connections with the right, rather than repoliticize them from the left." This makes sense only if one does not see depoliticization as neutralization or apolitical detachment. On the contrary, depolitization requires the effort of the left to pry the center loose from the right. The university cannot avoid politics. If it should choose a critical, independent center position, tension with the government would still persist...
...ever reach the trial stage, particularly in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post made virtually no effort to check the story. Look, however, released a statement saying that many man-hours were spent checking and re-checking the piece. While some foresaw Alioto's political doom, others predicted his victory in court and a huge sympathy vote if he runs against Ronald Reagan for Governor...
Broad Categories. As honorary president of The Hague meeting, March of Dimes' President Basil O'Connor acclaimed "the beginnings of achievement in a worldwide, concerted effort of science-the first in history-to improve the quality of human life at birth." But he went on to warn: "This means that you must also be prepared to protect the human heritage from a possible proliferation of defective genes. It is humane to save the lives of sick children. It is neither humane nor morally defensible to permit the cause of their illness to be perpetuated if that...
...most conspicuous backslider is Actor Van Dyke, a chain smoker who joined the townsfolk in signing the pledge and says: "I really made an honest effort, but I was climbing the walls. It was terrible, terrible," Others include Bill Marshall, a Greenfield insurance agent who resisted temptation for only one day. That night, he was awakened by a telephone call from a farmer whose barn had just been blown down in a fierce storm. Marshall reached for a cigarette-and kept on reaching, Jim McCutchan, manager of Greenfield's I.G.A. grocery store, was hooked again after three days...
...letter to his department chairman, MacEwan-who was among those who walked out of last June's Commencement exercises-said that Ford's letter was "part of the effort being made to suppress political action of the sort which took place here in April...