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Despite such successes, the key to Nix on's program remains the enthusiasm with which most Americans abide it???especially the working men and women who are expected to toil under its restrictions. The President's freeze on wages, in effect, is a sacrifice demanded of each of them. After an initial burst of optimism over the President's speech, laboring Americans?including millions who do not belong to unions?were be ginning to realize that his plan placed limits on their livelihood such as have not been dreamed of for a generation...
...legal issues, the newspapers saw a higher morality in exposing the secret history of decisions that had led to a dangerously unpopular public policy. Appeal to a higher morality by an individual or an organization is often necessary?and always dangerous. No government of law can passively permit it???or simply repress it. Therein lies the Administration's dilemma. There may be too many Daniel Ellsbergs in the U.S. now for a President to ignore their will...
...father-in-law: "It's always been my idea to make a few thousand early in the game if I could, and then quit for as long as they last and try to find out who I am and what I am and what goes on and what about it???now, while I'm young...
...million species of plants and animals have inhabited the earth. Of these, 98% are now extinct, unable to survive the challenges of a changing environment. Man himself may face such a life-and-death test. Unlike his predecessors on the evolutionary ladder, he has the capability to meet it???and to fail it even more grandiosely than did creatures with lesser brains and imaginations...
...Columbia University has synthesized an artificial virus that is indistinguishable from its natural model and has used it to infect bacteria and produce new viruses. He and his colleagues have little doubt that they will also eventually create "friendly" viruses and use them to cure disease rather than cause it???by using the viruses to stimulate the production of the chemical products upon which health and life itself depend...