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...rooters were so keyed up for the game that they couldn't even restrain their enthusiasm during the National Anthem, and when one yelled out "Go Wildcats!" during John Conroy's singing hardly helped to silence the joint...
Murphy feels that a major problem with Harvard students is not crimes, but emotional instability. Recently he and three other officers spent a Sunday evening trying to restrain a violent freshman by talking with him and having a few drinks together. "It's a pretty common thing," he said afterward. "We've had to deal with four of those cases in the past few days. This student was working on some paper or something, trying to meet a deadline. I guess he got overworked. We set up radio communications with University Health Services and called in a psychiatrist...
...after a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, gave guarantees to Lebanese Christians that the fedayeen would abide by prior (but mostly ignored) agreements to restrict their military activities within Lebanon. Some observers believe that in future negotiations with Israel, Assad might even promise to restrain the fedayeen from launching terrorist raids in exchange for major Israeli concessions on the Golan Heights...
Bell is skeptical about his fellow citizens, who, he feels, are ensnared by modernism. The once open American society is growing more rigid and confining. With few values and convictions to restrain them, people increasingly elbow one another aside as they push their rights and privileges to an extreme. Conveying an almost physical repugnance at this gathering chaos, Bell warns of the "megalomania of self-infinitization...
Helping the private sector is one of President Ford's primary aims. "We are at a critical point in our history," says the President, "a point where we can either allow federal spending and federal deficits to mushroom, or we can decide to restrain the growth of federal spending and restore the vitality of our private economy...