Word: harmfulness
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Salamites and his five teen-age companions, all bewildered, were examined and let go; they obviously had meant the President no harm. Hartford police manfully assumed the blame for not having a cop at the intersection, as they had said they would, but the responsibility for the disorganized motorcade belonged to the Secret Service. It was the agents' duty to make sure that the intersections were blocked off, no matter what the local police promised, and to see that the escorting cruisers flashed their warning lights and did not significantly outdistance Ford's limousine. (The Secret Service rarely...
...that might have been considered routine to a new total of 320. Simon put part of the blame on the publicity given to Squeaky Fromme and Sally Moore: "When these people are glamorized on the front pages of our national magazines, I think this does great harm...
...Ford; when asked if he thought he could ever be shot by mistake, he replied, "I hope so." Nonetheless, all agents are acutely aware that there is simply no way to ensure that a President who comes in frequent contact with his fellow Americans can be utterly free from harm. And no man wants to be on the detail that allowed the President to be shot. As Director Knight observed recently, protecting the President is "a living nightmare in a democracy...
...billion in foreign orders. Haughton denied both Senate committees access to the details: "Attempting to establish names of recipients or attempting to prove that payments had been received in specific foreign countries would be unfair, would serve no useful purpose and would cause a maximum amount of harm." (August 25 hearings...
Going Zowee. So far, the horde of promotions has drawn a beneficent nod from the guardians of tradition. "I see no harm in these Bicentennial products," says Robert Williams, executive secretary of the New York chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. "There's nothing wrong with making a buck. Free enterprise is the thing that has made this country go zowee." Another reason some approve: makers of souvenirs that meet the modest standards of the Government's American Revolution Bicentennial Administration pay royalties for the use of ARBA's imprimatur, and those fees...