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...call peace-keeping force from 11,000 to 25,000 men. But the organization's relative impotence in the major East-West confrontations is all but certain to continue, if only because the U.N. was never designed to be a world government, much less one strong enough to rein in the great powers. The wry rule of thumb posed by Philippines Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo years ago still holds: "When there is an issue between two small powers, the issue disappears. When there is an issue between a small power and a big power, the small power disappears. When...
...observed that John Barbirolli and Goerge Szell were polar opposites. While Barbirolli was the actual successor of Toscanini in the New York post, Szell was, in a very real sense, his spiritual successor. Toscanini and Szell were cut from the same cloth: men of precision who held tight rein over their orchestras and insisted on perfection in their performers. Like Barbirolli, Szell was a distinguished soloist in his own right. To a far greater degree than Barbirolli, he pursued his career as an instrumentalist all his life, and at his death was a fine concert pianist...
...White House source insists that "there isn't any direct rein" on Agnew. The closest thing to any sort of curbing came when Nixon obliquely suggested to Agnew that he broaden his topics beyond dissent and the media. Nixon had his own speechwriters send Agnew some material on foreign policy, the welfare program and postal reform; Agnew was duly heard from in public on all three subjects...
...Conduct. The charges against Priest ranged from encouraging desertion and sedition to violating Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which broadly forbids "all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline." Priest's law yer David Rein argued that his client had not directly urged desertion by reporting on groups in Canada that counsel U.S. servicemen who have fled the country. Most important, said Rein, Priest's views were protected by the First Amendment and indeed were no more unusual or harmful than those of General David M. Shoup, retired Marine Corps...
...Government workers by 6%. They also worry that consumer spending may jump because of the recent increase in Social Security benefits and the scheduled end of the 5% surtax on June 30. Thus the board, which has been expanding the money supply in recent weeks, may now rein in a bit. Though there is no talk of returning the economy to the constricting days of absolutely no monetary growth, even a slight shift to slower expansion of the money supply will do little to help corporations' hunger for more capital or shareholders' hopes for higher stock prices...