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Every technique that falls into the hands of these bankrupt meatheads is overused and thereby cheapened. They haven't the taste to restrict their expressive means to their slight ends, which would give us at least well-crafted films. By lending directors the license of artists the current "aesthetic" prevents them from even learning their craft competently. Francis Ford Coppola is praised for sloppy work while Vincent Canby makes snide cracks about an artist like Douglas Sirk...
...Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. His own measure (SJ 166) would accomplish this as well as repeal "the mortmain of past Congressional resolutions that have been interpreted as relinquishing broad authority to the executive to intervene militarily around the world." Mathias was voicing the growing eagerness of the Senate to restrict the sway of the President in foreign affairs...
change the GM charter to restrict the corporation to operations which are not "detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of the United States...
...proposal, which has not yet been reported out of committee, calls for the "accelerated withdrawal of American troops" from Vietnam and aims to restrict the emergency powers of the President...
...hearings mainly proved was that U.S. industry too often fails to foresee how its wonder products may affect all nature. Does this process have to continue? Last week the Reuss committee heard one answer from a Swedish pollution expert who described legislation being considered by his government to restrict all chemicals that might contaminate the environment. Officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior are now considering a similar plan...