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...grounds that those who denounce it are no saints." ¶The Seven Deadly Fallacies (e.g., confusion of Left and East, the anti-anti attitude) and a brilliant Guide to Political Neuroses (e.g., collective amnesia, eternal adolescence) are probably his most valuable essays-and most highly calculated to inflict flesh wounds on those odd fellows who, sometimes without knowing it, still travel with the fellow travelers...
Ordinary dismissal from a government job has never been considered legally punitive. Does a dismissal on loyalty grounds, however, inflict real punishment on an individual because of the undeniable stigma it casts on his name in the present climate of opinion? And has this stigma of a "loyalty discharge" impaired Peters' future ability to earn a livelihood and hence deprived him of property, as well as liberty, in violation of the Fifth Amendment? On these central issues may hinge the outcome of the Peters case and the future status of the loyalty program...
...absence of a law legalizing boxing matches, an assault entailing such consequence would constitute murder . . . Both of the medical examiners insisted that the objective of boxers who engage in a contest is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout punch means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant...
...defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range is shorter than the radius of H-bomb destruction. Any bomber within gun range is already close enough to inflict ruinous thermonuclear damage. The Nike rocket has 1,500,000 parts, is complex and unpredictable. Better guided missiles and more launching sites are necessary...
Demand for the Facts. By itself, Sogno's campaign is probably not enough to inflict mortal wounds on Italian Communism. But it may be a sign of a belatedly turning tide. Dozens of Communists in the Chamber and Senate, accused of various crimes (including the murder of rivals and wholesale robbery during the upheavals of the liberation), are unmolested because the Parliament as a whole has been reluctant to lift their parliamentary immunity: since the war hundreds of judicial requests for action against Communist M.P.s have been blocked. Said an editorial in Il Borghese: "This is the first time...