Word: factualism
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Ethical Contribution. Dodd does not quarrel with the factual assertions in the committee report; he objects only to the interpretation the committee puts on them. In an interview, Dodd almost airily dismissed the charges against him. He said he had thought the contribution from International Latex-which he received in cash from a company official-had been collected from individuals. "I should have told him to go back and get everyone to write out checks," he conceded. The double billing for travel expenses? Merely "sloppy bookkeeping" by one of the four disaffected aides who instigated the investigation by filching Dodd...
...Republicans-and mild praise from Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the House, Cosponsor William Widnall of New Jersey could count on at least 100 votes. The bill also drew a scathing assault from HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, who blasted it as "totally unsupported by any factual analyses as to the kind and amount of subsidy that would be required for workable home ownership by poor families." Weaver's nine-page critique seemed to reflect a possessiveness about the urban problems that no federal program has yet begun to solve...
...organizational thrust to the anti-war movement. Schematically, we should propose the following sequence for civil disobedience. First, everything should be done to bring home to as many people as possible the fact that a qualitative shift in the war is occurring. In addition to mustering and expanding the factual information we have the individuals who are receiving this memo should begin to gather groups to discuss the current situation and contemplate local and national responses. Our experience in Boston has been that it takes a long time for the importance and gravity of the current situation to sink...
...have always looked forward to reading your magazine to learn the scientific, artistic, factual and even gossipy news of our country and abroad. If I wanted tripe or sexual baloney, I would read this idiot's Playboy...
...said later, "which can be usefully isolated from the profoundest questions of man's fate." Yet, he allowed mischievously: "I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in TIME should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual...