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...Svetlana Stalina, he said, is not a " 'defector' in the usual cold war sense." Rather, she is a person "whose interests are literary and humane. She loves her country and hopes, with her writing and her activity outside Russia, to bring benefit to it, and not harm...
...Reston's more feasible suggestions is that much of the "classified information" that floods into Washington every day should be put at the disposal of the press. Most of the material, Reston says, could be published with no harm done the government. The reason it has remained unavailable is that a myth has grown up that anything sent to the government is top secret...
Piecemeal Harm. In his New York address, Banker Peterson castigated Government efforts to end that deficit as a "piecemeal attack" that so far is doing the nation more harm than good. Such business curbs as voluntary restraint on overseas spending by private companies and the interest-equalization tax that penalizes foreign borrowers in U.S. markets, Peterson warned, "chip away at what makes U.S. and world enterprises profitable and productive. The whole show," he said, "is reminiscent of a silent-motion-picture comedian trying to wrap an octopus in a blanket. Every time he gets one tentacle covered, another pops...
...objectives of both proposals--to streamline the government and to provide congressional representation--are reasonable. Unfortunately, the President's plan to remake the city's local government may do more harm than good by permanently killing the chances of a genuine home-rule bill. The President's executive order will go into effect 60 days after it reaches Congress unless either house votes to disapprove it, and the danger is that this measure will be accepted as an adequate substitute...
...encouraged to go to their families. "Square as it sounds, this produces the best result in over 99 per cent of the cases," Munter has said. "Often the families don't react the way the girls fear they might." If a girl insists on an abortion, or threatens to harm herself, Farnsworth said the UHS tries, through counselling or psychotherapy, to "help her arrive at a better solution...