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...strength of Goldwater's support and his financial resources offer the Republican party's leaders the most persuasive argument for silence. If they joined together to block his nomination, they might divide the party irreparably and lessen even more the possibility of a Republican victory...
...carefully reported in the Japanese press. Not so the reverse. Reischauer feels Japan is "the most important hole in the U.S. press's foreign coverage." Ample reasons exist to explain this lack of coverage--the political scene is highly complex and difficult to report--but this doesn't lessen the problem. Yet, he cautions, "no news can also be good news." If six months pass without a big news story, "it would be a great six months...
...noted that in the past several years both the Air Force and the Army have attempted to lessen the burden on cadets by reducing to four the number of required courses...
...domination of a nationwide market by sheer size. No longer; nowadays, antitrust frequently means antimerger. Many businessmen are confused and worried about two court decisions in the past year that have given the Government broad authority to block virtually any corporate merger that so much as threatens to lessen competition even on a local level. "The only way to avoid antitrust action nowadays," grumbles a leading Chicago lawyer, "is to have two companies so small that they don't even matter...
...Separation. As for the Profumo case, though an official inquiry into its security aspects is nearly complete, the government has given little assurance that it will lessen what the Economist recently called "the already cumbrous weight of suspicion that there is something nasty in the woodshed." Last week the Labor Party's "shadow" Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, called for a royal commission to investigate the roles played throughout by the government, judiciary and police...