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Still, the government was exerting its influence to ensure a heavy vote: most of the South Vietnamese army was withdrawn from combat and sent to supervise the vote. Vietnamese villagers were led to believe that if they did not vote, they might incur the wrath of district and provincial officials; government pressure was at least as powerful as Communist threats. Said one observer: "There was a general feeling that if they didn't vote, it would hurt them later." It would, but in more subtle ways than government reprisals...
...suspended, called on Hughes to join him in the ouster call. Hughes refused, siding loftily with Voltaire rather than Genovese, and forthwith nailed academic freedom into his platform. At Hughes's request, Rutgers' board of governors conducted an investigation, found that Genovese had done nothing to incur dismissal, and upheld his right to free speech. Nevertheless, the Genovese case turned into the Jersey equivalent of the Dreyfus affair...
...last week's A.M.A. meeting had a double reason for supplying answers. Many of them have been prescribing the pills for years, and it was an A.M.A. publication that unintentionally started the latest cancer scare. The consensus was more than reassuring: women who take oral contraceptives do not incur any added risk of cancer, said the experts, and there are even glimmers of hopeful though preliminary evidence that the pills may actually be protective against some forms of the disease...
Fortunes from Fractions. The men who do know the business turn hand some profits-and sometimes incur huge losses-by dealing in tiny fractions. Fluctuations in prices are as small as one sixty-fourth of 1 %, but that can add up to quite a sum in a market in which the U.S. Treasury every Monday auctions off about $3 billion worth of short-term bills to refinance the nation's debt. These bills go to the highest bidding bond dealers, who then sell them for whatever price they can get from banks, corporations and speculators...
...college male is not disrespectful of social and legal consequences that he may incur as a result of premarital sex. But the traditional values that place sex within the moral and religious sphere are what he generally resents and condemns...