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...each other and are showing it; we are full of anger at what has been done to us. And as we recall all the self censorship and repression for so many years, a reservoir of tears pours out of our eyes. And we are euphoric, high, with the initial flourish of a movement...
...been passed overwhelmingly by both House and Senate. Because the bill had grown by $1.1 billion over Administration requests, Nixon proclaimed it inflationary and promised to veto it. Last week in a presidential first, he explained his case for ten minutes on network television and then, with a flourish of his audibly scratchy fountain pen, signed the veto order in prime time. "The issue," said Nixon, "is not whether some of us are for education and health and others are against it. The question is, how much can the Federal Government afford to spend on these programs this year...
Russell's life was not studded with the events that fill history texts, the sweeping, panoramic strokes of dashing explorers and conquering generals. His understanded manner thinly veiled an unshakable denunciation of the repressive and life-taking institutions that flourish under the reign of history makers. He was a pacifist, an internationalist, a socialist, again, a humanist long before those stances were fashionable or, indeed, safe...
...also have two serious faults. Unlike more expensive tertiary treatment plants, they do not exterminate man-killing viruses, like those that cause infectious hepatitis. They also convert organic waste into inorganic compounds, especially nitrates and phosphates. When these are pumped into rivers and lakes, they fertilize aquatic plants, which flourish and then die. Most of the dissolved oxygen in the water is used up when they decompose. As a result, lakes "die" in the sense that they become devoid of oxygen, bereft of fish, choked by weeds. In short, by solving one problem (dirty water), the sewage plants create another...
Agnew's departure was not without the flourish of controversy that has become his signature. He personally picked an unusually small group of reporters to make the trip, and thus provoked another run-in with the press. Among the 34 publications that applied for space and were rejected were several that invariably cover such state trips: the Washington Post, TIME, the Ridder newspapers and the Baltimore Sun, Agnew's hometown paper. When the Sun complained, Agnew's press secretary Herbert Thompson replied: "To be quite honest, he doesn't like the Sun. He feels...