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...applied to a local restaurant called Ollie's Barbecue. The judges ruled that Title II violated the "due process" clause of the Fifth Amendment. Said the judges: "If Congress has the naked power to do what it has attempted in Title II of this act, there is no facet of human behavior which it may not control...
...With that reluctant admission, Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop took off for Europe last week on an indeterminate leave of absence. His abrupt departure seemed surprising in a man who has always relished the partisan enthusiasms of a presidential campaign, the chance to expound for his readers on every facet of American politics. But this year, said Joe in his final column, "the campaign has been a dreary business." And in a letter to his syndicate, he explained that the dreariness was as much in him as it was on the hustings...
From birth, Elle exhibited a driving urge to counsel the French woman in every facet of her life. That first winter was a cold one, and Elle advised its readers to fight the chill in slacks, a suggestion so sensible that it promptly set a postwar style. As the magazine grew, its interests expanded: vacation planning, advice on romance, cooking and sewing instruction, even history in the form of a series of famous accouchements. Its contents made Elle as attractive to factory girls-21% of its readership-as to manufacturers' wives...
Harvard's reluctance to let Institute scholars be housed near the Kennedy Library is one facet of a tension that has slowly been building between University officials and members of the late President's family...
...emotionally elemental. I noticed this first with my reactions toward others: they became plus-or-minus affairs, "I like" or "I don't like." You know no one completely or for very long, and yet nobody just brushes by, as in normal life. All you can learn is one facet quickly and deeply: it is all you have time...