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...right to strike is a fundamental precept of U.S. democracy. Still, major league baseball players scarcely seem to fit into the same category as coal miners, auto workers or even schoolteachers. But last week, the National and American League teams voted unanimously to call a strike against their owners...
...attempt to assert who came out ahead. Some will find the U.S. acceptance of the jargon of the Bandung Conference on peaceful coexistence distasteful. On the other hand. China assented to the proposition that "seeking hegemony in the Asian-Pacific region" is conduct unbecoming a well-behaved neighbor, a precept several of its neighbors would dearly love to see put into practice. As Henry Kissinger pointed out later, such talk about hegemony in a joint communique with China would have seemed very unlikely just six months...
...Hanoi knows that well. The expectation of domestic discord may well have rendered the North Vietnamese more stubborn, as the Administration has always claimed, but there is no convincing evidence that this ever was or is now a decisive factor. Viet Nam long ago destroyed any vestige of the precept that "politics stops at the water's edge." For any Democratic candidate not to discuss or criticize Viet Nam policy would be a curious-and surely damaging-deficiency in his campaign...
Until recently, at least, it has been men like Henry Ford and his dull-eyed descendants in the corporate board room who have monopolized the American way of thinking. "What's good for General Motors is good for the country" seemed like a worthy precept to everyone, except all those strident moralists and crackpot spiritual athletes who thought otherwise. The artist, of course, was always in this small group of dissidents, and, if he didn't go off to Europe seeking art for art's sake, he spent most of his time at home pointing out the dilemmas...
...Discretions is the recounting of an education given by a great man through precept and example to his daughter...