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...society, however democratic, a "handful of men in secret" make the choices that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs.* Snow's plea was for more scientists in government, thus minimizing the role of hunch and political intuition...
...that scientists making decisions are no different from other people making decisions. They act as men rather than as professionals, and they choose on the basis of sudden hatreds and loves, factional loyalties, and personal tastes. I was therefore surprised when he concluded his last lecture with a plea for more scientists at the top levels of our government. Although I might agree, it just didn't seem to follow...
Rage at existentialist sloth and his plea for a new vision to strive after place Snow near the camps of those calling for national purpose and those who are sad to se the end of ideology. His weak argument for more scientists in top government positions derives from something more serious and more important: a revulsion against the current western attitude of hopelessness about politics and all attempts to organize men in he service of a common ideal. To the extent that his mood is born of a sense of the emptiness of so much of the activity...
Damaged Image. By so pleading, the companies would be able to avoid frontpage trial publicity that might severely damage their long-nurtured images in the public eye. "Everyone who went out to buy a toaster," cracked a Government lawyer, "would think he was being overcharged." Furthermore, such a plea might discourage manufacturers who had purchased the price-fixed equipment from bringing civil suits to collect the triple damages allowed under the law. Reason: a nolo plea, unlike a guilty plea, cannot be used as an admission of guilt in a civil court, and evidence would have to be gathered...
...building costs so high that the project would be uneconomical. Hilton's attorney finally took the fight to the California district court. There last week Tabler won. The court ordered the city to issue a building permit. Appeals by the city may delay the actual start, despite a plea from San Francisco merchants to let the court decision stand...