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...censorship dates from the civil war, when Franco published a "provisional law" giving the state the right to appoint and dismiss editors. By daily directives to editors, the government also dictates what to print and what not to print. As a result Spanish newspapers have fallen into such low esteem that the combined circulation of all seven of Madrid's dailies does not even equal the circulation of one daily before the "provisional law" went into effect 16 years...
...hand: "A sort of Chinese Talleyrand." From a fellow-traveling Indian diplomat: "A second Nehru!" From a onetime kingpin in the Chinese Communist movement: "A Chinese Molotov." Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have called him "a reasonable Communist." General George Marshall once spoke of him with "friendship and esteem" and thought him a man of his word...
There has been pressure from some alumni to put Harvard football on nationwide television. Naturally, alumni want to generate public esteem for the College. But the undue stress this would put on football as a college activity would far outweigh any gains in general good will. By recruiting players to build television prestige, well-intentioned supporters might undermine the College's policy of athletic "sanity...
...afraid for America," Jungk writes in his last chapter, "afraid of its losing the best of itself, the esteem for freedom and humanity, in the struggle for nearly godlike omnipotence." Only at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton did he find a glimmer of hope. There someone told him: "All that you've seen in America ... is not what is to come but what is already passing." "So you don't think the future will be simply an intensification of this alarming present?" asked Jungk. "No," replied his mentor. "In spite of everything, there is hope...
...replace Kenya's retiring Police Commissioner Michael O'Rorke. Young, boss of the City of London's police, is the man who helped General Sir Gerald Templer reorganize Malaya's police. He considers it his job to build up "first of all respect, and then esteem" for Kenya's ill-trained, badly equipped and sometimes indiscriminately cruel 24,000-man national police force...