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...Previously we have seen cases where a speaker's appearance or a movie's showing was opposed. The argument has been made that these cases were not simply cases of free speech, because the speaker or film was appearing under Harvard-Radcliffe auspices, obtaining an audience and a tacit endorsement not available to the left. The demand in these cases has usually been that if the speaker appears, he be followed or debated by an authority of opposite persuasion and equal standing to allow both points of view exposure...
...Ellsberg said he "had been told throughout this period, a tacit assumption between my informants and me: since Hanoi is not going to meet the Nixon-Kissinger terms they are going to carry out their plan--the plan is to mine Haiphong and to wipe out North Vietnam...
Conversation at Harvard is governed by certain tacit rules that preclude the expression of "childish" hopes and desires. "Naive" and "simplistic" are the guns cynics call out when someone commits a blunder, and, if one persists, the ultimate disapproval of "romantic" is mouthed and salving looks are nodded. Brass tacks puncture floating balloons...
...writing is largely nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal the indifference of Government bureaucrats charged with enforcing industrial health laws. They come to a common conclusion: for many years, many industries, doctors and Government agencies have joined in a tacit conspiracy to downplay industrial dangers in order not to panic workers, tarnish corporate images or endanger profits. Brodeur is especially effective in detailing the overlapping membership of medical experts on boards that advise both industry and the Government agencies that set safety standards, mostly with the good of industry...
...well be a more fundamental reason. President Ford has not yet publicly commented on the trip, and an aide to Javits said that the President had made no efforts to contact either Senator to prevent it. This appears to indicate that Javits and Pell at least had Ford's tacit approval...