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...married man she loved and lost in her youth. Daughter Meggie spends her life moping over her love for the devilishly handsome Ralph de Bricassart. One woman who sees him muses: "He's the handsomest chap I've ever seen! An archbishop, no less!" She cannot restrain herself from adding, "What a father you'd have made, Father!" Alas, Ralph is wedded to the Roman Catholic Church. He loves Meggie but he cannot throw away his vows. Meggie pouts: "Off chasing rainbows, that was Ralph de Bricassart...
Said Columbia Law Professor Frank Grad: "It's very dangerous to restrain First Amendment liberties. The chance of occasional excesses is not too heavy a price to pay for assurance of liberty." Said New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill: "We must weigh one value, of a fully informed public, against another, the risk of some madman imitating what he has seen or read. The first enormously outweighs the second...
Keeping Tab. U.S. consumers, faced with up to $3.49-per-lb. price tags, have cut coffee drinking by some 20% over the past year. In Washington, the Commerce and Agriculture departments have taken steps to restrain price rises, present and future. Commerce plans to monitor domestic roasting and production costs monthly rather than quarterly. To forestall possible collusion on the part of producing countries to jack up prices, U.S. embassy Agriculture attaches will keep tab on coffee inventories throughout the world. The U.S. Government is considering the creation of a buffer stock of 20 million 132-lb. bags, starting...
...point, almost all experts agree: television and newspapers need to restrain themselves in covering a hostage scene. Many police officials would like to screen all press information emerging from such an incident. They contend that only the negotiators know what kind of press coverage might turn a gunman violent-if it got back to him via TV, radio or possibly a newspaper. Nor can reporters generally know when the bargaining has reached a sensitive point and coverage should be cautious...
...Encouraging Trade. As a result of the worldwide stagflation, protectionism is rising again. Prime example: the European Community, worried about the protectionist demands generated by its growing trade deficit with Japan, has asked the Japanese to restrain certain sensitive exports. Carter is expected to urge a revitalization of worldwide tariff-cutting talks that officially began in Tokyo in 1973 but have so far accomplished nothing...