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...Wayne, a man who distinguished himself by portraying the extermination of the native inhabitants of this continent as a series of heroic acts. He then used his reputation as vigorously as he could to advance the prosecution of a war which Americans now see as anything from the most monstrous, costly error in our history to a deliberate genocidal campaign. To those who found this amusing, I must say I missed the funny part; to those who think Harvard gained any points against Wayne, I urge you to read the articles on his appearance in The Times, Globe, or Herald...
...vehicle to offset the profits from his Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, the TWA-Hughes saga is a damning indictment of the legal system that serves the very rich. Indeed, Justice Burger, dissenting from the Supreme Court's 6-2 pro-Hughes decision, referred to the monstrous litigation as a 20th century version of Bleak House, in which Charles Dickens argued that the "grand principle" of the legal profession is to "make money for itself...
...former Governor William Scranton, and who numbers among his friends Andrew and Jamie Wyeth and numerous Du Ponts, should enter politics is some of the best news to emerge in the season of Watergate. He is one of a growing number who are now seeking to right a monstrous wrong...
...tradition Jeremiah Rippe flouted convention, defied public opinion, devoted his whole life to the creation of ever more powerful and improbable looking engines, and eventually died, a broken and unrecognized inventor mourned only by his dog. His last creation--the spawn of a mind unhinged by disappointment--was a monstrous machine that was meant to pull his coffin to his grave...
Struggling to recover his balance, Richard Nixon last week stumbled into yet another Watergate morass. Now it was the mystery of the missing tapes. Conceded one of his closest legal advisers: "We've created a credibility cul-de-sac of such monstrous dimensions that even the most innocent transaction appears suspect...