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...forgivingly accept Senator McCarthy's nonperformance in office is certainly subject to some extensive qualifications. People who have to call on our representatives for information, counsel and aid are not amused, and it goes beyond the affront of not getting responsive action to a request. What is most resented is that the work is shifted to already overburdened representatives-first Hubert Humphrey and now Senator Mondale. Considering McCarthy's undistinguished and largely negative record in the field of legislation, in comparison with the records of Mondale and Humphrey, we resent having to take the time of such...
...factor in the Czechoslovaks' insistence on neutrality was apparently the same sort of disaffection with the Viet Nam war that has been plaguing U.S. citizens. In Prague, the new-breed officials who are taking over believe that the conflict is in danger of getting out of hand, resent the levied cost of arming Hanoi, and seem to want a de-escalation of Communist involvement...
...people of Flint, white and Negro, who voted the city's fair housing ordinance into being, resent your reference, "Black Power exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance" [March 1]. People believing in people and their community voted in the ordinance. The chairman of the committee striving for the ordinance was the white executive director of the Greater Flint Council of Churches...
More important, there is growing discontent among the officers of Nasser's army, who understandably resent their role as scapegoats for Israel's victory in June. As long as Nasser could count on the unquestioned admiration of his worshipful populace, no military leader dared lift a finger against him. But the admiration is now in question, the populace is no longer entirely worshipful, and the possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after...
Like any other new democracy, Penn has not resolved all its procedural problems. Many professors resent students on curriculum committees. Some power-hungry students regard the gains so far as nothing but tokenism, and ask why the faculty should have any voice at all in setting social rules. "Students don't tell faculty members what time to come in," protests Sophomore Stephen Marmon. "What business do they have telling us what time to come in?" But even Marmon is proud that "while Berkeley students used confrontation, Penn students used communication, consensus and compromise...