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...single piece of legislation was closer to him than a strong civil rights bill. If, in the face of his death, we enact laws he urgently desired, then alongside the tragedy, his spirit is proclaimed. If we do nothing, it is not fate, but we who render his death senseless and empty. We did not bring on the President's death, but we truly dispose of it by what we make...
...just one example of the type of issue that could render Kennedy vulnerable next year, Nixon cited the recent U.S.-endorsed military coup in South Viet Nam. "If this Viet war goes sour, Viet Nam could be a hot issue next year. If it goes well, it won't be. It's strange to me, when we are fawning over Tito, catering to Kadar, accommodating Khrushchev, we don't even have the decency to express our sympathy to a family which was a real foe of Communism. There is a human factor here...
Darrow pointed out that State Department support for this trip would "render unnecessary" the plans of leftist students who island to duty the travel ban by visiting Cuba illegally this summer...
...market before someone else has duplicated them-or produced better ones. The whole new space-military complex is devoted to the idea of constant change and advance. Scientists have discovered so many basic new ways of doing and making things that one bright scientist in a lab can sometimes render obsolete the basis of a whole industry. Many companies, particularly those that have long concentrated on a few products, find it increasingly hard to come up with the management know-how and the funds to finance the advanced research needed just to keep...
Awolowo, denying all the accusations, said there was insufficient evidence to prove the case, and declared that some of the testimony was obtained under duress. In a half-hour closing oration, Awolowo frankly lamented that "the invaluable services which . . . I can still render will be lost to the country." The judge, George Sowemimo, who was openly distressed by the entire proceeding, said he had no choice but to convict. In a nine-hour decision delivered last week, he gave Awolowo ten years in prison for treasonable felony, just a bit milder than the 15-year prison term meted...