Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: There can be no innocent bystanders at a time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo...
...Sir: How sweet it was-the dull Republican convention in Miami. At least the newsmen didn't need Blue Cross...
...Sir: Are these not the same men who have constituted the majority of our leadership through recent years? These who cannot even hold a convention without chaos? Perhaps we are closer to anarchy than we suspect. Or is that what Wallace has been trying to tell...
...Sir: Nixon could make real progress in his quest for the presidency if he keeps asking Humphrey if he cleared it with Daley...
...Sir: Your article "A Savage Challenge to Détente" [Aug. 30] made some rather flaccid remarks about American "legitimate spheres of influence" and the soundness of armed intervention in Southeast Asia and the Dominican Republic. But détente is a two-way arrangement. If we feel free to make war in a small country on the other side of the world, using as our excuse the "threat" of external subversion, then I think we're asking too much of the Russians if we expect them to restrain themselves whenever they believe their "legitimate spheres of influence...