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...their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public's right to know" and foster "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from press scrutiny. Fueling the fuss is the fact that the U.S. Judicial Conference, which recommends rules for federal courts, will soon weigh possible crime-news curbs that might later be adopted by state courts...
...close the vote would be. Last week, with a healthy majority assured since the March 1966 elections, the Labor Party finally had its way. By a vote of 306 to 220, it rammed the nationalization bill through Commons. To most Britons, the measure seemed almost anticlimactic; there was little fuss over what just about everyone had long considered inevitable. Under the bill the 14 largest companies, which account for 90% of Britain's steel output, will be merged into one huge state-owned Na tional Steel Corp. Smaller companies will be left in private hands. The cost...
Academic controversy is currently not limited to California. At the moment, another but lesser battle of words rages over Harvard's new Institute of Politics, supported by the John F. Kennedy Library Corporation. British Journalist Henry Fairlie ignited the fuss with an article in London's Sunday Telegraph and the Washington Post, charging that the institute is a vehicle for the Kennedy family "to move in on Harvard" in order to nourish brainpower for its future political staffs. One sign of this takeover, claimed Fairlie, is that Harvard's 30-year-old Graduate School of Public Administration...
Naturally. It was, after all, the first installment of The Death of a President. Yet readers, after getting through these first four chapters, may well have asked themselves what all the fuss was about...
...student power," he contended that the regents could have taken reprisals, but were "too damn scared." Now, students and labor, symbolized by the assistants union, had been united, and they could close down "the great and profitable university" if it did not "concede to our demands." Actually, the new fuss had alerted most of Berkeley to the fact that the freedom of students and faculty-and the intellectual luster of the entire university-would certainly suffer unless order is maintained. The nonstudent thrill seekers had unwittingly strengthened the hand of Chancellor Heyns...