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...KENNETH J. YOLLA President, L.A.W. The Bronx...
...Nixon inaugural medal shown at the bottom of the cover is the official medallion approved by the new President. The sculptor was Ralph J. Menconi, and the medal itself was struck by the Medallic Art Co. of New York. The three-quarter view of Nixon's face is a departure from the traditional presidential profile. The reverse side of the medal is also something of a novelty: instead of being the standard reproduction of the Great Seal of the United States, it is a sculptured rendering of the crewelwork seal that Julie Nixon gave her father as an election...
Somewhat more than tweaks were directed at Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who was once described by a former member of his administration as a man who "only opens his mouth to change feet." Seeking confirmation as Nixon's Secretary of the Interior, Hickel carefully stifled his celebrated whip-snapping temper and larded his answers with such Capitol Hill bromides as "the Congress in its wisdom." Once he even referred to "its wise wisdom...
Much of it is due to shortsighted overselling of the possibilities of evolutionary progress. Darwin's theories showed that man had evolved from primordial protoplasm. But that evolution from a lower to a higher form of life had taken some two billion years. (Biologist H. J. Muller has graphically illustrated how long it took by imagining the span of time since life first appeared on earth as a trip along a tape running 90 miles from beyond New Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin...
...will for what? Great resources and balky institutions-what can the President do? Much of the advice that he has been tendered reflects the impatience inherent in the American temperament. J. Irwin Miller, a leading Republican and a much respected Middle West business leader, believes that the problems of the ghettos, crime and domestic unrest are so critical that they justify "going to war." By this he means mobilizing the nation as in World War II, when all of its energies were focused on the one goal of defeating Germany and Japan. The Kerner Commission on civil disorders said that...