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...counterparts make Francisco Franco's twilight years uneasy. Harold Wilson's government bobs precariously in a sea of discontent, while in parts of Africa the old tribalism engulfs the new nationalism. In Czechoslovakia, having overturned one of the most obdurate Stalinist regimes to survive in Eastern Europe, libertarian pressure refuses to subside...
...really little to choose from among the three candidates on fundamental issues, Humphrey by his tone and his loyalty to the Administration finds himself the sudden centrist; able to seek a Democratic coalition potentially as broad as F.D.R.'s. He is doing so, moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity...
...more to it than that. Compounding a general shortage of fledgling lawyers, caused partly by the draft, is the fact that more and more top law graduates are shunning regular practice. Instead, they are working for Government agencies, going into teaching or using their valuable talents in various civil libertarian causes. For many, the new lure of the law is a career devoted to tackling the country's social problems, not protecting private clients. Last year only one-quarter of the editors of the Harvard Law Review went directly into private practice; only 10% plan to do so this...
...local officials is open to censure on other grounds. Their wise decision yesterday to stop harassing and arresting the sellers of Avatar was hardly provoked by decent motives. They did not yield their hypocritical Victorian prejudices, but merely realized that they had clogged the City Jail. The courageous, staunchly libertarian stand taken by the several dozen Harvard students who sold Avatar in the wake of Monday's bust was undoubtedly one of the main reasons the officials compromised their spurious virtue...
Just as disturbingly, the City demonstrated that it responds to libertarian pressures from young people only if they go to Harvard. The large-scale involvement of Harvard students in Avatar precipitated yesterday's compromise, not the commitment of a few local hippies earlier this winter to the ideal of a truly free press. In all probability, the officials would have taken a lot more time to wise up if hippies had dominated yesterday's sell-in. In short, it is clear that local law enforcement officials, even in their belated wisdom, adhere to a shamefully inequitable policy of legal discrimination...