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What could they say? What do we say? Our machines have outraced our minds, and we are unable to comprehend the evil that our tools accomplish. It is easy to react to the ugliness close at hand. It is easy to share the dismay of the college president surveying the wreckage of his occupied office. But the greater horror eludes us. The Jews were slaughtered nearby, the Vietnamese are killed thousands of miles away: the lesson is the same. With a bit of government cosmetics, suffering can be forgotten if it is kept at arm's length. As evil becomes...
...Wall Street and helped to knock the Dow Jones industrial average down 28 points in the past three weeks, to a Friday close of 941. Investors fear that Grayson will block all large profit gains by ordering wide-ranging price cuts. Some Administration officials worry that nervous businessmen might react by holding back on investments and expansion plans, hindering the economic recovery. Grayson has been warned about this concern, but the Price Commission acted anyway...
...anyone doubt that Nixon was encouraged in his outrageous act by the failure of American universities to react angrily against the recently renewed bombing? We must not repeat that mistake now. We must strike immediately--as a community of students, teachers, administrators, workers. We must bring all possible pressure against Nixon in this emergency...
...order and private enterprise. The strongest Christian Democratic Speaker is Amintore Fanfani, 64, onetime Premier and currently Senate President, and the man who engineered the "opening to the left," an alliance with the Socialists a decade ago. He has taken to attacking youthful demonstrators and proclaiming "we must react," as if to show that he is not now afraid to be called a reactionary. Fanfani, and leaders of other Italian parties, are really reacting to the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, whose call for law-and-order-along with voter disenchantment with other issues-may well double M.S.I...
...took to be good old Southern boys, Dent observed that the President's plan to review all court-ordered busing might lead to the elimination of most Southern busing plans to achieve racial balance in schools. When asked how the blacks on Nixon's staff would react to that kind of a civil rights retreat, Dent joked, "Oh, we got a boat for them that's leaving for Nigeria...