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Still, the nomination's backers felt that they needed a clear indication that the President was wholly behind his nominee. The way Nixon chose to show his support left no doubt at all?but it probably did more harm than good. He contended that the real issue was whether the Senators wished "to substitute their own philosophy or their own subjective judgment for that of the one person entrusted by the Constitution with the power of appointment." Well aware of their own constitutional authority to "advise and consent" on appointments, many Senators resented the statement...
...More Harm than Good. Despite such arguments, the Tanzanian Parliament, which has 179 males and only seven females, overwhelmingly indicated its approval of the new code. When the bill comes up for a formal vote, perhaps at Parliament's session next June, it is virtually certain to be enacted. The ladies of Tanzania did not accept defeat gracefully. "Let the men marry as many wives as they please," shrugged Lucy Lameck, the Member of Parliament from Kilimanjaro Central. "They will come to realize that they are doing more harm than good to themselves...
...took it himself and suffered no harm. He gave it to a male patient, 51, who was "restless, dirty, destructive, who had been in a back ward for five years and bade fair to remain there the rest of his life." In three weeks the patient was better, and he soon went home and back to work. Lithium carbonate, Cade found, appeared to be of little or no value in the treatment of other psychotic states, notably schizophrenia, or in the depressive phase into which most manic patients usually subside...
...Johnson can't row however, the major harm done to the boat will be for future rowing-not for the Stein Cup race. Harvard has won all five of its triangular races this year and will be tested only by Brown, if by either of its opponents this afternoon...
...Britain, the minister himself takes on this judicial function and polices his own department. Though he was once responsible to Parliament for his conduct, the party system ended that. Only the remote possibility that he would harm the party's success in the next general claxon would deter his abuses...