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...interested in both the physical and emotional care of the child, and I also wanted to write a book that did not scold the parent. Too many authors say 'Don't do this, you'll harm the child; watch out, you'll kill the child ...' I wanted to encourage and reassure mothers...
While there is obviously harm in allowing young children to read some of the books that the Commission has discussed, protection of "community standards" should not take the form of orders whch prevent all sale and distribution of a book, especially since "distribution" has been interpreted to include libraries. There is no effective way to keep "questionable" books only from children, however, and any enforcement of standards must rest with individual parents...
Since Scranton is prominently mentioned as a possible G.O.P. presidential nominee, his speech set off speculation about how it might affect his national chances. The likely answer: no harm done, and perhaps some good. Big Labor, after all, sends few delegates to Republican conventions. As for his political position in his own state-well, he won election in 1962 by nearly 500,000 votes without the help of organized labor's leaders...
...dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
...Johnson had hoped to demonstrate decisiveness in foreign affairs, the curtailment of aid was not the way to do it. Not only can his rigidity cause immediate harm in Latin America and Europe, but in the long run it may make a conservative Congress even more reluctant to accept necessary, flexible measures. The trade embargo simply will not isolate Cuba economically. By seeking to enforce it unilaterally, Johnson has succeeded in alienating our friends without hurting Castro...