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...party with a girl in his car, drove off the road and killed the girl-then crept quietly away from the scene without saying anything to anyone, leaving car and corpse to be discovered the next day without his assistance. The laws covering a situation like this are stringent-nay, merciless. Such a private citizen would pay a very stiff price indeed for his irresponsible behavior. Yet it seems that Edward Kennedy intends to pay no price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Recently the Civil Aeronautics Board, with its three Democrats voting aye and its two Republicans nay, recommended that Continental get routes from the East Coast through the Southwest to Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Last week Nixon again vetoed the award to Continental. He strongly suggested that the South Pacific route will go instead to financially troubled Eastern Air Lines, in which Laurance Rockefeller holds a substantial interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Playing Politics | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...Your excellent cover article on General Eisenhower, the great soldier President [April 4], really touched me and carried my heart to Abilene. How accurately you report that he embodied serene America. Standing on his achievements, Ike may truly be regarded as one of America's, nay, the world's greatest generals. Adlai Stevenson once said: "I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." The same can be said of Ike, the hero who despised heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 18, 1969 | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

Such picayune problems as teachers up in arms over pensions and a highway department scandal can have an unsettling effect on a legislature. Last week, however, lawgivers of the sovereign state of Oklahoma laid aside these minor matters to concentrate on a historic decision. Without a dissenting nay, the assembly decreed that the collared lizard, known as "the mountain boomer" amid the hills of Ouachita and Wichita, will henceforth be designated as the Sooner State's official reptile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oklahoma: The Sooner Boomer | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...deep concern to students should be open is a view well worth exploring. But it is not a simple question, and even if it were, to impose the solution by the fait accompli of a sit-in decided by one group of students is not a method acceptable to nay self-respecting Faculty: A rule cannot be changed through its coercive violation. Had the Deans not decided to cancel the meeting, it would have been the Faulty's duty either to do so, Faculty initiative to hold an open meeting could be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOFFMAN ON PAINE | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

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