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...protect jobs when new machines can do them more efficiently and more cheaply. When the publishers bargained with the New York Typographical Union last spring, they agreed to give the printers a veto over the installation of any new automation equipment, a decision they have already come to regret. For now the Guild is demanding equal treatment...
SINCE the inception of our LAW section in 1963, the consultant to the staff has been Professor Marvin E. Frankel of Columbia University Law School. Now, with mingled regret and pride, we are losing him. Last week President Johnson named Frankel to a federal judgeship in the Southern District of New York...
Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee: "Within the Senate, there is solid support for standing firm in Viet Nam. Within the group, there are a great many regrets that we are in there. But we are in there. Our flag is committed. Our boys are committed. We've got to back them up. We would invite much more serious trouble elsewhere in Asia and throughout the world if we set a precedent in being pushed out. I regret that we got in there. And I regret the extent to which we have become committed-particularly...
Said Douglas: "I regret that I do not possess the art of planned and spontaneous irrelevance which is so charming a characteristic of my junior colleague. Nor can I perform his acts of sorcery and necromancy which, in soaring far beyond logic, disguise an assault upon our political system as a mere amendment to an act to encourage junior league baseball." Douglas charged Dirksen with "deception," with introducing "an awesome and abominable proposal," with trying to give "the rotten-borough legislatures now in operation the power of self-perpetuation," with "sounding the false alarm that the Supreme Court had created...
...Adlai Stevenson [July 30]: I remember his humorous comment after some prefatory remarks at the Harvard commencement last month. He said: "I suppose that I must talk now and you must listen. I do hope that we both finish our work at the same time!" We all regret that his work is now finished and that we can no longer listen to his eloquent voice...