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...Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while turning the Massachusetts and Rhode Island races into photo finishes and losing Delaware to the Democrats. While Massachusetts has a Republican Governor and one G.O.P. Senator, its predominantly Democratic voters have little enthusiasm for Nixon. In Connecticut, city votes are expected to outweigh Nixon's strength in affluent downstate counties. Pennsylvania gave 51.2% of its votes to John F. Kennedy eight years ago. But the Philadelphia Democratic machine, which produced a 331,554-vote bulge for J.F.K., has rusted badly since Bill Green's death; so has the Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) machine...
...about its values. Professor Sheldon White acknowledged that Harvard's committee was probably "more on the side of the researcher" than the equivalent committees at Berkeley and Stanford. One committee member who was concerned about the possible harm to Milgram's subjects felt research could be sufficiently important to outweigh this damage--she felt the world's pressing problems require knowledge, and consequently research...
...more subtle argument against the war is that it is not going to be won by force of arms. An unwinnable conflict, theologians point out, violates the traditional concept of the just war, in which the probability of accomplishing a moral goal must outweigh the violent means involved. Says Lutheran Pastor Richard Neuhaus of Brooklyn, a co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned: "There is no legitimate proportionality between the credible goals of the war and the means being used to win it. The credible goals are weak and tenuous, and the means are evident in their harshness...
From that moment, it was apparent that the Chief was to be a judge whose concern and feeling for the individual tended to outweigh his reliance on specific precedents of the law. During oral arguments before the court, it became his custom to break into a lawyer's taut legalistic reasoning and ask: "Yes, but is it fair?" In Reynolds v. Sims, which in 1964 extended "one man, one vote" to both houses of state legislatures, he wrote for the majority: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic...
...matters, such as the King's interests, is never so apparent as after reading The Hellenic-American. The paper includes literary reviews and mood articles on Greek scenes, but this writing is generally feeble. The superb editorial page and foreign coverage, provided by correspondents and travelers in Greece, far outweigh the spotty writing in the paper and make it a valuable source of information...