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...Governor William Stratton and even Mayor Daley. Once, Muller ticketed his own car which had been illegally parked by a friend. "It's on the level of traffic corruption where you first get your breakdown in law-and-order," says the 52-year-old cop. "If someone can fix a parking ticket with a cop or a judge or a politician, it won't be long before everything else is being fixed all the way to who runs for President of the country...
...Possibly the best cultural and historic fix on Proust is that he was a man caught between two centuries. Proust valued three things in life: love, society and art. He became disenchanted about the first two, and out of this half-cured 19th century disenchantment he created his 20th century art-as tragic and as comic and perhaps ultimately as mystifying as life itself...
Although antiwar forces lost their fight to fix a withdrawal date, Mansfield will almost certainly tack such an amendment, with a May 1972 deadline, onto the $21 billion military-procurement bill. It will thus become a fresh vehicle for the antiwar forces...
...motor pool every day and tell me to paint that truck," complains a G.I. in Kaiserslautern. "The next day they tell me to chip the paint off, and then I paint it again." Insists an armored division lieutenant: "There's just so much you can do to fix a tank." Scorning the Army as "the Green Machine," the Seventh's soldiers adopted a "mox nix" attitude, from the Yankee pronunciation of the German macht nichts (it doesn't matter...
...American Psychological Association, has proposed a startling cure for international aggression. The world's leaders, he told the A.P.A. meeting in Washington, should be required to take "psychotechnological medication"-pills or other treatments to curb their aggressive behavior and induce them to govern more humanely. Such a pharmacological fix, Clark argued, "would provide the masses with the security that their leaders would not or could not sacrifice them on the altars of the leaders' personal ego pathos...