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Since then, Preusser said, she has "spread out" her interests, and seen the root causes of problems plaguing Cambridge schools. Believing it "foolish" to work through middlemen, Preusser said, she decided to run for the council this year with the endorsement of the Cambridge Convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Candidate Profiles | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...glimpse of fear on the face of the man can become a lingering fear in millions. A small retreat from the world's anger can send ripples through every free society. It takes time to sort out what is courageous or merely foolish in the large acts of policy. Human hesitancy may instantly weaken a man's ability to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: THE BETTER PART OF VALOR | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...seemed to echo Martin Smyth, Imperial Grand Master of the Orange Institution, who pledged his allegiance to the Crown. "The Monarchy stands for the highest and best of our Constitutional procedures," Smyth said. "All things are done in the name of Her Majesty whether it is a result of foolish counsel by her ministers...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...Attorney General Edward Levi's continuing efforts to put tighter controls on FBI investigations. Levi has slashed the agency's requested 1976 budget increase for counterespionage activities from $11 million to $4.4 million, opened up certain secret files to congressional probers, and criticized past FBI excesses as "foolish and sometimes outrageous." In an attempt to deal with the resentment, TIME has learned, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley summoned the chiefs of the bureau's 59 field offices to an extraordinary meeting in Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: A Problem of Morale | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...reviewer of books. He is also, as he has shown in Max Jamison and People Will Always Be Kind, a novelist of wit and intelligence. When his prose has erred, it has always been on the side of elegance; he has never been known to write a bad or foolish line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Harder They Fall | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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