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...York Times has just issued a revised 231-page Manual of Style and Usage (Quadrangle; $10), though the last version appeared only 14 years ago. In the words of News Editor Lewis Jordan, who edited both revisions, the Times's stylebook gives "preference to that which safeguards the language from debasement." Whether it can safeguard Times language from dullness is another question...
PREMARITAL SEX. Some writers on morals justify sexual union before marriage, at least in cases where the couple intends to marry. Rome will not have that. Says the declaration: "Every genital act must be within the framework of marriage." The decree reasons that "love must find its safeguard in the stability of marriage" in order to "protect human dignity" and give children the ordered environment they need. This requires nothing short of a marriage contract that is sanctified by the church and "guaranteed by society...
Leary did set the University to thinking, for the first time, about overseeing researchers in order to safeguard the rights of subjects. Nothing substantial was done, however, until 1966, when the federal government required the establishment of a standing institutional committee to review all research funded by the Public Health Service. That committee was the ancestor of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (CUHS), now charged with the review of experiments performed within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...fields, however, show the Teamsters and the UFW in a near draw among those workers--a sizable majority--who favor union representation. The UFW leadership claims its share of the vote has been reduced by Teamster and grower intimidation, and by the apparent reluctance of state officials to safeguard workers' rights and reject invalid Teamster ballots...
...proposals to set up a collective security system for Southeast Asia. "We want to be very neutral, very independent and non-aligned," he said. "We do not want to be associated with our neighbors in a regional or Indochinese federation. Each Asian country should alone assume the responsibility to safeguard its security. The security of Asia must be achieved by Asians, not by Europe. The Soviet Union for us is in Europe...