Word: rule
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There is no rule of politics that says a U.S. President has to get along with the country's intellectual community. Few Presidents have done so, although most of them have tried-notably, Franklin Roosevelt with his Brain Trust, Kennedy with his White House stable of bright young Harvardmen. Even Lyndon Johnson sought to establish a rapport with the academic world. Last week that link was broken with the resignation of Dr. Eric F. Goldman, 51, who since 1964 had served the Administration as a part-time intellectual-in-residence. That raised a question: Would Johnson, whose appreciation...
When writing a speech, Bobby calls for drafts from key staffers; as a rule, he later edits and adds considerably to their versions. His small New York staff can tap some five dozen volunteers, mostly young lawyers or professors, to work up memos as well...
...Magsaysays among them. They were not running for a legislature. They represented no political parties. They stood on no platform other than their own appeal-and their desire, in the face of assassination threats by the Viet Cong, to shape a constitution that will prepare the way for civilian rule in Viet...
Changes in Targets. The Viet Cong have two strategies of terror, one for rural areas and the other for crowded cities. In the countryside, Communists will behead a hamlet chief in order to substitute their own rule and make possible the collection of "taxes" and recruitment of men for the Viet Cong cause. They will cut off the arm of the chief's twelve-year-old daughter in order to frighten the neighboring peasants into silence about their whereabouts...
...powerful Orthodox Church to which 90% of all Greeks formally belong. Although Greece's constitution proclaims religious freedom, Orthodoxy is granted special privileges as the state church, and all proselytizing by other faiths is forbidden. Orthodox leaders regard the Witnesses as the most persistent violators of the rule. While Kazanis was facing retrial, the Athens daily Ta Nea summed up church opinion in a story that wildly denounced the Witnesses as "an American Mafia with agents throughout the world, who make propaganda in favor of Judaism." Greece's Orthodox primate, Metropolitan Chrysostomos, recently called the sect "the Number...