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Ultimately, Watergate raises the question of what role the press is to play in American political life. To an extent, the adversary relation between the press and Government is right and traditional. But it is a relation easily forgotten in quieter times. In the past the press has often been faulted for being too complacent and too easily accommodating to power. Thus, in a sense, Watergate has distorted the true challenges that face the press. When Watergate is behind us, the American press will have a twofold task. It will have to carry out investigative reporting in areas far less...
Fulbright's successor as Foreign Relations Chairman will probably be Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, who usually follows the Administration's foreign policy. The committee's hearings will likely be much quieter in the days ahead than when Bill Fulbright was peering over his half-rimmed glasses and trying, in his own stubborn, professorial way, to tell the squirming representatives of a succession of American Presidents how the United States should conduct its foreign policy...
...stringently competitive sales arena, where salesmen have been known to press prospects with photos of their rivals' air crashes. A sales team for the Lockheed L-1011 was in Australia last week, but so too was one for the A300B. Its salesmen claim that the A300B is quieter than rivals and, even more enticing, uses roughly 23% less fuel per seat mile than a 727. So far, eight airlines-six from Europe, one from Thailand and one from Brazil-have ordered 22 airbuses, at $21 million to $22 million each; options have been taken on 25 more...
...reasons for the sudden spate of resignations is unclear. In the past, Harvard's resources, salaries and historical pre-eminance were compelling attractions, and Cambridge was a quieter, less crime-ridden place to be. The academic industry in the U.S. was so much smaller then that a handful of universities could easily dominate the profession...
THERE'S A CERTAIN danger in looking backwards at an event, or a place. Descriptions of real problems seem to be period pieces, and in some way the past always appears a quieter and happier time...