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...convicted last year for failing to file federal tax returns, the Government had shown that his income between 1959 and 1962 was more than $76,000. Franklin paid a $25,000 fine. Now 51, he is a strapping, stentorious charmer who has never let his spiritual calling inhibit his fun-loving ways...
...think that people should be required to debate in order to have a right to recruit at Harvard, for the proposal may encourage the glib and inhibit the different--and not at all the dishonest. And I continue to belive that students should fight the evils of society directly in the society, as a great many have done and are doing now, taking universities and even Harvard with less solemnity as the measure of all ideals, the forum for all polemics. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
Writing in the A.B.A. Journal, Reardo explains that the standards "in no way inhibit public release by prosecutors or police of the full facts and the circumstances of an arrest or of a charge of crime." The main target of the standards is uncalled-for opinions such as that of a police officer who says a suspect is guilty. And the rules "do not restrict the news media from disseminating information developed through their own initiative or resources about crimes committed or about the administration of justice...
Second, Dr. Coles accuses radicals of desecrating the memory of Martin Luther King. Yet let us remember that King called not simply for non-violence, but for non-violent revolution. It is now fashionable for liberals to use King's rhetoric to inhibit action for liberasl to use King's rhetoric to inhibit action for change. Leaders like President Johnson decry black violence but continue the violence of white America against blacks and against the Vietnamese people. It is these men who desecrate King's memory...
Swinging Group. As with all grand designs, execution is far more difficult than enunciation. The necessity to check spending, for instance, will inhibit proposals for expensive new federal activities. But some White House aides believe that there are other ways to inject new interest into the old Great Society pitch. Instead of merely claiming credit for previous accomplishments and promising more of the same, Johnson, they believe, should point up his campaign with the "incremental approach." This prescribes the setting of firm goals, timetables and priorities-for instance, the fractional reduction of pollutants in the air by a certain date...