Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Justice Department officials pointed out that the opinion did not exempt the bugs that the FBI has long planted, without judicial sanction, along Washington's Embassy Row. Anyone who phoned an embassy and was later accused of a crime, they argued, would now be entitled to force the Government to reveal such eavesdrops-even though they might involve delicate international affairs. In turning down the Government's motion for a new hearing, Justice Potter Stewart noted that the Court had ordered the release of records only when the eavesdropping violated the Fourth Amendment-and that...
...personal opinion, Kraetzer said, was that the proposal was "not a reform anyway, but rather a major change of policy" from the past practice of encouraging contributions to charitable institutions to a new--and dangerous--one of discouraging such contributions...
That was in 1965. Now in recent issues of both the A.M.A. Journal and the British journal Lancet, teams from NIH and Columbia University have reported that, contrary to prevailing medical opinion, both infectious and serum hepatitis are probably caused by a single virus. That virus appears to be identical with the Australia antigen...
Engel's work in "autonomic shaping" has enabled him to alter heart rates and rhythms to alleviate irregular heart beats and high blood pressure in cer tain patients. Other researchers are proving-contrary to expert opinion of the past-that man can learn to control even such functions as sweating, blood pressure, intestinal contractions and brain waves...
Economists of all shades of opinion consider controls undesirable, unworkable, unfair, even immoral. Conservative Milton Friedman has condemned them, and so has Paul McCracken, head of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers. Another former CEA chief, Walter Heller, adds: "Trying to substitute Government omniscience for the brilliant cybernetics of the private market system would invite too many distortions, too many evasions." The public, however, is so fed up with inflation and so sick of the surtax that it favors wageprice controls-by a 47%-to-41% margin, according to the latest Gallup Poll. It has apparently forgotten the black...