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Norstad was the first to admit his plan is "imperfect" as it stands. But he insisted on its merit as a measure toward "putting at least one of the rooms of our house in some order. It would bring the NATO nuclear capability under the collective authority of the alliance, while still respecting the sovereign rights and responsibilities of the separate nuclear powers." As such, he said, "it is worth considering...
...Yale Law Journal, Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie, former president of the American Psychosomatic Society, criticizes present methods of determining custody and visitation rights as often being imperfect and inflexible-representing "a compromise between the demands and feelings of contending parents." There is, he says, a lack of "machinery first for discovering and then for serving the changing needs of the child . . . There may be times when a child needs the constant attention and affection of his mother, others when his father's masculine image is of primary importance." But although courts can and do change custody provisions, which...
...ominous pattern. Some industries, such as chemicals, have had to rescind price increases because the market would not bear them. Though increases outnumber decreases, there have also been numerous price declines, for example in fuel, lumber, industrial pumps, electrical circuits, color TV sets. The wholesale price index, though an imperfect indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal. For the present, no serious inflationary spiral is in sight...
...therefore spent the last hours of debate engaging in tomfoolery. For example, Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee and leader of the Southern Democratic forces, offered an amendment that would ban discrimination by reason of gender as well as race. "This bill is so imperfect," said he, "what harm will this little amendment...
...Imperfect Circle. Five days later, 30 miles south of Saigon, a paratroop battalion surprised and gamely engaged Viet Cong Battalion 514, which a year ago inflicted a major defeat on the government in the notorious battle of Apbac. Now grown from 250 to possibly 600 men, Battalion 514 stopped the paratroopers with machine-gun fire. Out went a call for help, but it was slow to arrive. Armed American helicopters on stand-by duty 20 minutes away in Saigon were not called in by the Vietnamese until three hours after the initial contact...