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...what's past is prologue, Dodd's political future may be nil. Senate adoption of the censure resolution seems assured; it would make Dodd only the sixth Senator in U.S. history to be so chastised by his colleagues. While this punishment may appear lenient-especially when contrasted with the House of Representatives' exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell-the mortification of censure is a sentence to political demise by inches. Dodd will keep all official perquisites, but must inevitably lose most of his influence and prestige, amassed, ironically, through his career as an investigator of others' transgressions...
Since last year's press law was passed, some publications have ventured bold criticism of the Franco regime. The regime, in turn, has reacted with fitful ambivalence, lenient in one case, stern in another. Sometimes it has done nothing. Leniency means that a representative of the Information Ministry politely informs an offending editor that he is endangering his access to government-subsidized newsprint...
...decision probably earned Jus tice's trustbusters temporary relief from recent complaints that they have been too lenient with big-business mergers. Such criticism falls most heavily on Donald F. Turner, 46, who in two years as Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust has become resigned to trouble. "There are strong emotional views on antitrust," he says, "ranging between those who think it is too tough and those who think it so soft as to be antiquated." Now he is mostly under attack as being too soft, by critics who note that in 1966 "large firm disappearances" (acquisitions...
...recommendation that Powell be forced to part with $40,000 was, if anything, lenient. The committee calculated that Powell and some of his staff had "wrongfully" appropriated at least $46,226. It also suggested that his salary be docked $1,000 a month (out of $2,500), so that the easy-payment restitution would run into the next Congress. Actually, the committee, chaired by Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, "dean" of the House, settled for a compromise. All nine members signed it, but Florida Democrat Claude Pepper went on record in favor of excluding Powell, while Michigan Democrat John Conyers...
This is only slightly less lenient than the rules in the College Government Handbook for 1966-1967: "Current social rules require students to be in their residence halls by 11 p.m., unless they have signed out for a later hour or for the night. When away from campus overnight, all students are expected to stay in chaperoned places or respectable hotels...