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...Ervin committee, which has full subpoena powers, also has solid legal grounds for contending that White House officials cannot spurn any such subpoenas. Since he hopes to begin televised hearings in about two weeks, the issue is reaching a climax. It could easily lead to the most fascinating Capitol Hill TV drama since the Army-McCarthy hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Defying Nixon's Reach for Power | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...nourishment with heavy ritual. Therefore, it is fitting that one of the kinkiest divisions in the army of culinary skeptics, the health-food addicts, should operate with almost religious conviction. Believing that good health, not to mention beauty, longevity and even sexual potency, depend on the proper foods, they spurn most pre-packaged products. Instead they insist upon vegetables grown in soil that has been enriched with manure rather than chemical fertilizers, meat from animals raised without growth-stimulating hormones, bread from which no grain particles have been removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Eating, American Style | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...between elected leaders of the two parts of Pakistan. From one end of the spectrum to the other, an extremely loose arrangement could be worked out, but at least the name of Pakistan must remain. It's our legacy of 1,000 years, and we can't spurn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Bhutto: The Voice of Pakistan | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...greatly concerned about the abuses of McCarthyism. The wheel of history having turned, present-day audiences will be much more caught up in the ecological aspects of the play. It is ironic that while audiences will root for Stockmann on this contemporary issue, they would probably spurn him as an arrogant elitist if he were running for political office. As unyieldingly committed as was Ibsen himself to the prior claims of the individual conscience, intellect, character and will. Stockmann has no use for "the solid majority." He is for the "isolated, intellectually superior personalities" in society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Moral Pollution | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

While Father Tin is appealing the decision and calling on peace forces and journalists to oppose the government move, Father Can has decided to spurn his chance for appeal and to go to prison...

Author: By D. GARETH Porter, | Title: Thought Control in Vietnam Triggers Dissent | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

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