Word: semis
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Roosevelt, hardly a radical or socialist sympathizer, learned two crucial lessons. First, even if a president sees that prevailing economic conditions demand radical remedies, he must cast his political programs in terms of mainstream values and legal norms--even if that semi-radical program is ultimately no threat to the ruling class...
Roosevelt, hardly a radical or socialist sympathizer, learned two crucial lessons. First, even if a president sees that prevailing economic conditions demand radical remedies, he must cast his political programs in terms of mainstream values and legal norms--even if that semi-radical program is ultimately no threat to the ruling class...
Both reigning Ivy champion Penn and NCAA semi-finalist Cornell will return with teams as good or better than last year's editions, while Brown will threaten those two for the top spot. Both Dartmouth and Yale have been gaining fast as a result of two consecutive crops of outstanding freshmen, and may give Harvard a serious run this year which they have failed to do in the past...
...sweltering Labor Day weekend, Nixon flew from San Clemente back to the White House to confer with Vice President Spiro Agnew over the continuing Federal investigation of possible bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax fraud that threatens Agnew's future. Inevitably, rumors swirled that the President and his semi-estranged Vice President were heading for a confrontation-that Nixon might even ask for Agnew's resignation. On both sides, press spokesmen vigorously denied that any resignation was even being considered...
ISOLATIONISM BECOMES SEMI-RESPECTABLE. When Attorney John Wilson, who represented John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman at the Watergate hearings, called himself a "little American," he was not necessarily being insulting. These days, many Americans prefer that reduced image to the earlier strutting one. Isolationism is no longer a dirty word, as it was two decades ago, though it is not yet an altogether respectable one. John Kennedy's stirring inaugural pledge: "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty," seems...