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...point has now come from Russell E. Train, chairman of President Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality. Last week Train voiced, on his own hook, the toughest line yet to come from a Nixon Administration official. "Most of us march to the tune of 'Produce or Perish,' and this has helped make of Americans a nation of high achievers," he told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. "But with all of the benefits from continued economic growth, as a people we are beginning to question whether more is really better...
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? ?Shaw...
...freshly Democratic, strolled in his shirtsleeves through a black neighborhood in Brooklyn, got an unenthusiastic reception, and heard some griping about the city's low-income housing programs. Seizing on a momentary point of agreement with one critic, the mayor shouted "Right on!" and beat a hasty retreat. "Perish the thought!" Lindsay exclaimed when reporters asked if his second consecutive day in the Brooklyn streets heralded the start of a presidential campaign. "I don't know how you could possibly arrive at such a conclusion...
...passenger, a hit man with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less likely to perish from gunshot than from atrophy...
...should as easily be genetic. We have done ill things with our quantity of history. We had a lot to learn about our humanity when we moved West; the land spoke loud enough that the lesson should have made others possible. I don't think we learned. We shall perish if it is now too late and it is a sin that I don't have time for a watch...