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...administration, he asks the American people to ignore the espionage so he can quietly return to his Oval Office in pursuit of the "greater goals" to which he has dedicated his term in office. But Nixon's questionable efforts to secure peace at home and abroad must pale in the light of his efforts to secure re-election. To delegate responsibility, as Nixon says he did during the campaign, without supplying guidance is negligent; to "seek peace" while covering up corruption is morally indefensible...
Press Secretary Ron Ziegler goes through his rituals of evasion like some man we never knew. Arrogance has given way to patience. Scorn, contempt and anger have faded into professions of understanding. He presides in front of his pale blue backdrop every morning with a large, uncomprehending sadness behind his eyes...
...friends, our standing as natives of Israel crowned us with a tint of nobility. We were the first generation of the deliverance, Hebrew children who did not know what anti-Semitism was. We were tanned, cheeky and free-the diametrical opposite of the Diaspora child, who was pale, white and frightened...
Salvador Luria, MIT professor of Biology, Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, Willis E. Lamb, Pale professor of Physics, all Nobel prize winners endorsed the petition...
...science have always raised fascinating social implications. The new feeling is that so many of the obstables to what once was science fiction are now merely technical problems that will be solved in time. The everyday hygenics that have advanced the average lifespan 30 years in the last century pale beside the new methods of postponing death. Surgeons make daily use of ceramic and metal bones, synthetic arteries and electronic blood pressure regulators and bladder stimulators. Miraculous innovations that quickly have become almost commonplace suggest the great issudes medical ethics will be confronted with in the near future...