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...vote of 6 to 2, the court rejected as unconstitutional the McCarran provision that any Communist Party member is ipso facto denied the right to work in defense plants. "For almost two centuries our country has taken singular pride in the democratic ideals enshrined in its Constitution," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, who delivered the majority opinion. "It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties-the freedom of association-which makes the defense of the nation worthwhile...
Signal Failures. The lightning rod for most criticism is, of course, the President. Johnson, complains one sub-cabinet member, has a singular ability to "catalyze disenchantment"-not to mention disbelief. Few Congressmen-and fewer newsmen-take the President of the U.S. completely at his word. When he forecast a deficit of only $8 billion for the current fiscal year, few believed that it would be so small. Now that he is predicting a deficit of up to $35 billion, hoping thereby to prod Congress into enacting his 10% tax surcharge, few believe that it will be so large...
...have read almost everything." His lectures and writings are scholarly without being bookish. (He deprecates "Cyclical Light," an early poem, as "priggish." "Of course I was young when I wrote it. I had to work in all those Greek names.") The broad background frames but never inhibits his intelligent, singular and personal world. Robert Lowell, introducing the fantast at a reading Wednesday night, called Borges' work amid that of other writers "always an oasis in a sea of competence...
...find myself, as the parent of a Harvard undergraduate, the recipient of your singular form letter of November 3, circulated in your capacity as Senior Tutor of Adams House. You begin: "I enclose for your information a copy of a letter that I have just sent to your son. I regret the sternness of its tone." I do not care one way or the other about your tone: be as stern as your conception of yourself requires. I am struck, however, by the quite insufferable insensitivity and stuffiness of your letter. I do regret the sense of moral superiority that...
...world's fair in history. In the surge of last-day crowds, souvenir hunters made off with a guitar autographed by the Beach Boys from the U.S. pavilion and a nativity crib from the West German pavilion. But no amount of petty vandalism could sully Expo's singular triumph: in just six months the fair had racked up a total attendance of 50 million*-20 million more than had been expected...