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...most eminent men in our cultural life will have free rein on a full-hour telecast on Channel 5 at 10 p.m. tonight...
...while the plotting is tautly controlled, Shakespeare at the same time gives himself completely free rein in diction, so that the characters indulge themselves in pouring out poetry at great length and turning an etat d'ame into a cosmic phenomenon. Like King John and two parts of Henry VI, Richard II has no prose; and it contains more rhymes than any plays in the canon except Love's Labour's Lost and Midsummer Night's Dream. As a whole, the play is vastly superior to, say, Romeo and Juliet, written at the same time...
...Powerful Rein. By discouraging wage and price increases, the President has also discouraged the ordinary companions of economic growth. He cannot retract his stand on holding down prices in basic industries without losing face, nor can he stand still for major wage increases without drawing cries of favoritism. But while holding business and labor back in the name of anti-inflation, the President has not exactly lived up to his own formula...
Unnecessary operations, which are profitable to the hospital and doctors but not to the patient, were more common in the profit-making hospitals. One of the first results of the report was that Commissioner Trussell tightened the city's already close rein on profit hospitals: now they will get only month-to-month licenses, which means far more frequent inspections. Though no such penetrating study has yet been made outside New York City, medical experts noted that across the country hospital codes are generally looser. Nationwide hospital treatment is generally no better than it is in New York...
Park's acts of mercy clearly reflected the regime's increased confidence in its ability to hold a tight rein on internal security. But such clemency was timed to serve an additional purpose: next week the junta celebrates the first anniversary of its triumph, and Park is anxious to show influential foreign guests invited for the occasion that he can be a kindly strongman...