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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candor is as much a part of Edmund Muskie as his easy grin and his sincere visage. Last June-amazingly early by the coy calendar of most politicians -the Democratic Senator from Maine told an interviewer that "the idea of running for President is in a remote corner of my mind." Then Muskie casually listed two drawbacks: his own lack of familiarity and identification with some national issues and the fact that, as matters then stood, Senator Edward Kennedy could get the Democratic nomination in 1972 "for the asking...
...Army's Saigon command announced that eight Green Berets, including the Special Forces commander for all of Viet Nam, had been detained while the Army investigated charges of premeditated murder against them in the shooting of a South Vietnamese. The commander is Colonel Robert B. Rheault, 43, a much-decorated West Pointer. Also arrested were two majors, three captains, a chief warrant officer and a ser geant first class...
...unemployed farmhands who have no conception of sanitation. They persist in tossing their garbage out the back door without remembering that rats, not hogs, are there to eat it. Worse, the city did not collect trash until last week and is still unable to enforce its rudimentary sanitation laws; much of the population cannot afford even minimal fines. As a result, vacant lots have sprouted moldering mountains of rubber tires, empty cans, cardboard boxes and putrefying scraps of food. The rats love...
...even if it includes hospitalization, the physician tries hard to retain that role. By choosing someone his own age, to whom he has referred patients and who in turn has referred patients to him, he achieves a cozy sense of equality. If he knows the other physician socially, so much the better. If he has to be hospitalized, he shuns strange institutions where he would be just another patient and addressed as "Mr." rather than "Dr." He tries hard to obtain admission to his own hospital...
...maintain that it is dangerous to show too much to people who do not know what they are looking at. I think that a man who is sane as long as he looks at the world through his own eyes is very likely to become a dangerous madman if he takes to looking at the world through telescopes and microscopes...