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...part of the controversial tape was played in the courtroom. The quality was surprisingly poor, with much of the conversation between Nixon and Ehrlichman indistinguishable. Nixon was heard to remark: "In the '68 campaign the press was violently pro-Humphrey." After Haldeman entered, the hum began. It was a steady sound that did not waver in its medium-high pitch. But after 5½ minutes the hum suddenly became softer, and some sporadic clicks could be heard for 13 minutes...
...none of this seems ever to occur to him. The most telling remark he made during his Princeton press conference was: "My critics are just like the people who tried to stifle Galileo." Shockley hastened to add that he wasn't trying to say he was another Galileo, but his heart wasn't in it; the thing about Shockley is that he really does think he is another Galileo. He, like Galileo, thinks in big terms. He wants to redefine the universe, so set into operation a world-wide plan of unnatural selection by sterilizing people who aren't intelligent...
Among Japanese consumers, many of whom recall the severe shortages of the war, the "oil shokku" has also instilled an edginess bordering on hysteria. A casual remark by one shopper to another in Yokkaichi to the effect that oil and electricity were needed in the sugar-refining industry touched off a sugar-buying panic that spread across the whole country last week. Housewives are still trying to lay in supplies of toilet paper after a rumor spread about a forthcoming dearth of that staple. A woman was trampled to death in a toilet-paper stampede in Osaka...
...punches. "The only time you have us down here," he complained to Nixon, "is when you get your ass in a crack and want us to get it out for you." As others laughed nervously at Goldwater's coarse language, Nixon stared stonily, obviously irked at the remark...
Herrnstein's article was embarrassingly misinformed on several counts; I would like to remark here on contravening evidence from the substantial scientific research about these matters extending over many decades...