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...Administration made some pleas for restraint. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Nixon warned businessmen and labor leaders that "if the fires of inflation continue to burn too strongly, demand for controls will come up again." John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council, sent telegrams to more than 200 companies that had signed agreements to keep prices down in exchange for an early release from controls. He reminded them that the Administration considered their commitments to be still binding. The force of his warning was somewhat weakened by the fact that un der present...
...demand for controls was very ev ident last week. The Senate defeated a move by liberal Democrats to give the President power to reinstitute wage-price restraints for another year. It gave preliminary approval - by only a 44-to-41 vote - to a much more limited measure granting authority to reimpose controls on companies that violate formal price-restraint agreements. But even that proposal must still get final approval in the Senate and then the House, where it faces strong opposition. AFL-CIO President George Meany and other union leaders are putting heavy pressure on Democrats to kill all controls...
House members have climbed onto the full-disclosure bandwagon as well. Several have set $100 limits on their cash campaign contributions. The Congress men engaging in such admirable self-imposed financial restraint, though they may vary in personal philosophy, share one important political attribute: all are incumbents. An unknown candidate for public office still needs expensive advertising to make himself known and put his case before the voters, and hence needs more money. To close that gap, a comprehensive public campaign funding bill remains a vital item on the nation's agenda...
...made is neither exhaustion nor expense. The point to be made is that there is a fight, the battle is joined between those who would abridge the freedom of the press and those whose commitment to excellence finds this abridgement intolerable. During the last three years alone, prior restraint has been seriously and successfully used against the press; a carefully orchestrated and well-financed plan to corrupt the free flow of information between the press and the public has been conceived and implemented; major efforts to force journalists to reveal their sources have been prosecuted; and journalists have gone...
...after it hits the stomach, alcohol is coursing through the bloodstream to the central nervous system, where it starts to slow down, or anaesthetize, brain activity. Though it is a depressant, the initial subjective feeling that it creates is just the opposite, as the barriers of self-control and restraint are lifted and the drinker does or says things that his well-trained, sober self usually forbids. Only later, after a number of drinks, are the motor centers of the brain overtly affected, causing uncertain steps and hand movements...