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...objective point of view is that it can never do any harm to speak your mind, whether you are right or wrong. It's a little like voting: some people say you can't change the political scene by adding your vote to 100 million. By the same token, doesn't it do some good to sing one song and convince a few people...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: The Incorrigible Optimist | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

Eastland began baiting Stewart on the legal reasoning in 1954's keystone Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision. Replied Potter Stewart evenly: "I didn't come here today to criticize the institution of the Supreme Court or to do any harm to it ... I never so far as I know decided a case on any basis other than applying the law as I understand it to the facts ... In many cases the law is not easy to find. Certainly, in many cases before the Supreme Court of the U.S. If they were easy cases, they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quizzing the Justice | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there is still time to moderate the harm they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Moment of Candor | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...anxious crowd assembled in the Norbulingka gardens, the God-King said blandly: "If the Chinese Communists have come to Tibet to help us, it is most important that they should respect our social system, culture, customs and habits. If Chinese Communists do not understand the conditions and harm or injure our people, you should immediately report the facts to the government, and we can immediately ask that the guilty ones be sent back to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: The Three Precious Jewels | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...unborn child, warned Dr. Arthur R. Schulert of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, because an atomic fission bomb produces 160 times as much of it, and 20 times as much as appeared in milk after weapons tests. While Sr-89 does not remain active long enough to harm an adult, it may be a threat to children (a Canadian boy has been found with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fallout & Hangovers | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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