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Americans will undoubtedly continue to summon the Guard and rant at Government; the impulses to do so are endemic and some situations permit no alternative. What MacLeish pointed out is the need for a deeper readjustment of society-a rediscovery of and renewal of affection for such old-fashioned virtues as tolerance and forbearance. Just as the U.S. and Russia have developed a coexistence, however tentative, those edging toward the poles of American society must learn to live with each other in the knowledge that if they do not, either can destroy everything for both...
...Administration and on Capitol Hill, response was swift. Spiro Agnew asserted that "it's not our baby," and promised that "as long as Richard Nixon is President, Main Street is not going to turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper with the restrictive...
...wall of pictures. There are the young siblings, smiling, optimistic, untouched. On an adjacent wall, the children are grown, the faces strained and damned, the father satanically peering from behind a flowing beard, all silk and grosgrain. That interlude is album riffling, not film making. Such short cuts summon memories less of Robert's early years than of Cornel Wilde's, when he played Freddie Chopin in A Song to Remember...
Last year, when White House Domestic Affairs Aide John Ehrlichman needed information on student demonstrations, he called on Joe Rhodes to supply some of it. Rhodes' warning that Nixon would face student opposition despite a conspicuous lack of it during the 1968 election impressed Ehrlichman enough to summon him to Washington later for a White House staff briefing on the same subject...
...works in the book-lined study of the sea-coast bungalow where he and his wife Lillian spend their vacations. Their 21-year-old daughter Eva laughingly refers to the telephone in the summer home as "the hot line." It rang two weeks ago when U Thant called to summon Jarring to New York to embark upon yet another round of what is generally regarded as the world's most difficult diplomatic mission...