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...judge appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, which, after pondering his case for a year, has ruled unanimously that he did no wrong. But Harrod's victory may be hollow. Fearful of stirring up more trouble, the judge has not decided whether to resume sentencing shaggy-haired miscreants to terms in the barber's chair, even though he remains convinced that in many cases, prison cells or fines are too harsh a punishment. Says he: "I'm going to wait and see. I've been burned by this...
...leaders cheered, President George Meany, 83, declared that the Government should spend billions to create millions of jobs; should refuse to cut taxes on business; and should limit imports. "Free trade," he declared, is "a joke and a myth." But the familiar bravado had a hollow ring, for organized labor is in trouble. Its leadership is out of step with a nation that is increasingly worried about inflation and annoyed over Government controls. Beyond that, labor confronts a U. S. President who is not all that friendly and a rank and file that is disputatious and declining...
...feels, can understand his tribulations. He is sure he is engaged in as tough a job as exists on earth-or under it. That is the source of his strength. "It's never dull when you're down below," says Jerold Hamrick of Kelley's Creek Hollow, W.Va. "You're some place where man has never been before. Fifty years' experience won't hold the top up. The rock has no respect for anyone. But it's in my blood. It's a challenge. People like to make out that life...
...banners behind the prince do not look quite splendid enough; the trumpets ring a little hollow. As the lights go down on this Henry IV one remembers not the holders of exalted positions but the ignoble Falstaff who has already exited offstage, dragging the body of Hotspur as if he had killed the young leader himself. The final lesson of this production is that it is people who endure. The positions they hold, no matter how impressively presented, are, as Falstaff might say, mere "scutcheons...
...this is a hollow argument, one that does little to bolster Nixon's defense. It is all too easy to forget, in reading Price's attack, that the two years of national hysteria over Watergate misdeeds, real or imagined, would not have occurred if Nixon had not initiated the coverup in the days following the June 1972 break-in. Moreover it is certainly inadequate to argue that Nixon's actions of June 23, 1972 represented the president's sole obstruction of justice. His actions for more than two years following those June days constituted one ongoing obstruction of justice...