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...Jima. Smiling and remarkably steady on their feet, the astronauts were greeted by cheers from sailors and a fitting musical tribute from the Iwo Jima's band: Aquarius. Nine doctors on hand to meet the space travelers found them in surprisingly good health?except for Fred Haise's mild urinary-tract infection?after their exhausting and agonizing adventure...
...other hand, journalists from Germany, France, and the U. S. have shown how Cuban prisoners today are fairly well treated; torture is outlawed, and if it were practiced the news would leak out. Future emigres to the United States form the bulk of the people in labor camps-a mild punishment when you consider that they are deserting to Cuba's number one enemy...
Hammer said yesterday that America has entered a period of repression more serious than the early 1950's. "[Senator Joseph] McCarthy was pretty mild compared to the present climate." Hammer said yesterday, "since he was an individual Senator who created his own atmosphere. It was not done under the official sanction of the government...
Worried by the presidential silence, many economists and politicians are urging Nixon to put the jawbone back to work. Walter Heller, onetime chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, calls Nixon's mild admonitions to labor and business "an open-mouth policy without teeth." Arthur Okun, another former CEA chairman, contends that Nixon has in effect declared "open season" for unions and companies to get all they can. Okun figures that between 1966 and 1968, wholesale prices rose an average 2.3% a year for most industries; they went up only 1.7% in 15 "jawboned" industries, including steel, copper, autos...
...pensive man in private, Jackson expounds his opinions forcefully in public. He does not arouse a crowd as readily as King did, but he employs cadence, sweeping hand gestures, a penetrating gaze and abrupt changes in volume to command attention. He deliberately mangles grammar and throws in mild profanity to develop rapport with audiences. He is hopelessly addicted to preacherly metaphors, some effectively illuminating, others either mystifying or inept. "We need leadership," he likes to say, "not leaders. The ship is what's important because