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Mitchell had originally considered seeking a court order to restrain the media from publishing the documents but decided instead to make a personal request for "those who have received copies of the material not to further circulate it or publish...
ALMOST to the last, Richard Nixon's lieutenants brandished his formidable power to freeze wages and prices. Last week, however, the President chose the mildest action open to him to restrain the public-be-damned surge of wages and prices in the nation's largest industry. Declaring that an inflationary "emergency" exists in construction, Nixon suspended the 40-year-old Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that locally "prevailing wages" be paid on federally aided building...
...construction inflation. "There will be action," he promised. Baseball Fan Nixon added that if Hodgson "struck out, then we'll be up to bat." After the President took his swing last week, A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany condemned the move as "punitive" and "unfair" because it did not restrain the rising price of land or materials, or limit profits. "Disappointing, inadequate and totally ineffective," said William E. Dunn, executive director of the Associated General Contractors of America. "The suspension may have some long-range results, but it will not help to stop the demands for huge wage increases...
Before the Drug Task Force was established, the Harvard police were used to oversee and, if necessary, to restrain agitated students who were bumming. "The sight of a blue uniform for someone on a drug trip really freaks him out," Walters said. "We've wanted to use friends. It works much better...
Recessions always tend to restrain passions as much as spending. "One effect of unemployment," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "is to make a man concentrate on his personal problems. If he is unemployed or worried about his job, personal problems take priority. He doesn't have the psychic energy to think about society." Many of the McCarthy liberals and peace-movement activists have become silent since they lost their jobs as laboratory scientists or systems analysts in the defense and research plants along Boston's Route 128. Despite the General Motors siege, there were fewer strikes last...