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National Democratic Chairman Lawrence O'Brien will meet this week with Democratic contenders in hopes of reaching a gentlemen's agreement to hold down primary costs. Senator Edmund Muskie, currently the front runner, has come out in favor of a spending ceiling, but candidates not as well known as the Democrats' former vice-presidential nominee are unlikely to accede...
...just how-and where-to draw the line between a government's right to secrecy and the duty of the press to inform. In Britain, for nearly 60 years, the problem has been partly solved in fuzzy fashion by the government's D-Notice, an advisory by gentlemen's agreement that alerts editors to sensitive security subjects. The notices (D is for Defense) have no legal force, and the occasional violations are punishable at worst by deep frowns of disapproval...
Varney also added the pro scout to the Harvard bleacher. There were always one or two trips to the water fountain each game to shake hands, smile, and joke about the game with the gentlemen in the fedoras. And at the District I playoffs, the press section was filled with stop watches and movie cameras...
...economy as having Ivy League graduates replaced on Wall Street by students from Fordham and Wichita State. The Yale and Harvard boys have been muffing the job lately in the same manner that Oxford and Cambridge killed off the British Empire. Perhaps the elite graduates can become gentlemen of leisure, albeit somewhat dirtier than their decadent predecessors. ABBOTT FAY Calcutta
...desired relevance rather than scholarship," he recalled and, rather than earn a doctorate, he plunged into an industrial parish in Detroit. His 13 years as pastor there honed his moral passion. After visiting a sick, unemployed Ford worker in 1927, he wrote bitterly: "What a civilization this is! Naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics suddenly become arbiters over the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands...