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Academic freedom is besieged from all sides. While teachers worry about the Massachusetts loyalty oaths, their students fret over the draft. But the Cambridge City Council, unmindful of the persecution already blackening the sacred halls of learning, has launched yet another unprovoked attack on one of Harvard's most cherished traditions--jaywalking...
...noise of passing carriages, some Senators complained that they had not grasped it and, refusing to be hurried, moved to send the bill to a committee for study. "This defeats every purpose of my coming here," said Washington, who, according to an eyewitness, was "in a violent fret." Two days later, the President returned; he watched as the Senate rewrote the treaty before his eyes. During the episode, he snapped: "I'll be damned if I ever go there again...
...shift is due to a combination of outside forces. Investors are uncertain about Viet Nam and its effect on the economy; they worry over inflation, wonder about possible tax increases, fret, at least along Wall Street, about renewed rumors that the Government contemplates an excess-profits tax similar to that imposed on industry during the Korean War. And if only because of their uncertainty, they are starting to lay off stocks that even though presumably solid are still relatively cheap and considered to be speculative. At the old year's end and the new year's start...
Though some members of the American Bar Association fret about "solicit- ing," which A.B.A. canons of ethics sternly forbid, the association has voted to aid such efforts (TIME, Aug. 20). The trend may particularly benefit law schools. The University of Detroit Law School, for example, recently promoted a new state ruling permitting law students to try cases in court-a boon to the legal-aid clinic that the university is setting up with a $242,000 Government grant. The University of Michigan Law School is following suit. As one student puts it: "We're hungry for bread-and-butter...
Whatever the law should be, said Katzenbach, it is "particularly irrelevant" to fret because police questioning may bother the poor the most-"the simple fact is that poverty is often a breeding ground for criminal conduct, and that inevitably any code of procedure is likely to affect more poor people than rich people." Indeed, argued Katzenbach, more effective police procedure would benefit the poor, "for it is they who live in the high-crime areas." In short, criminal justice can go only so far in seeking social equality -a goal that courts alone cannot reach -and then it is time...