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Peretz took a different tack, emphasizing that dissenters from American policy should not be afraid of the labels of "irresponsibility" and "lack of patriotism...
Questions from the audience took a different tack. One student asked how other beings would know if there was life on Earth. Aside from a few "trails of jets, wakes of ships, and logging swaths in Canada," even a near-by observer would not see any evidence of life, Sagan said...
...Agriculture, jested that the farmers should not dump milk but should use it to paint the White House fence instead. Shuman suggested that farmers would get higher prices by bargaining with food processors through cooperatives than by depending on federal subsidies. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman took a different tack, suggesting that "perhaps consumers should be prepared to pay a little more." Though he talked of promoting "a little lovemaking between the housewife and the farmer," Freeman had the near-impossible task of raising the farmer's price for milk while keeping it at the present levels for housewives...
Additional support for Johnson came from Congress. After two weeks of debate, the Senate passed a $4.5 billion supplemental appropriation bill for the war in Viet Nam-and battled down an attempt by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark to tack on an amendment demanding that the U.S. either declare war or freeze troop levels in the South at 500,000 (nearly 415,000 are already there). Convinced that Clark's rider would be defeated so decisively that the vote would be interpreted by U.S. hawks as a blank check for unlimited escalation, Mansfield performed some fancy legislative...
SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, professor of Government and Social Sciences, takes a somewhat different tack. Lipset points out that Washington (unlike Paris, London, and Moscow) is one of the few major capitals which doesn't support a major university. The result, he contends, has been a marked lack of communication between the scholars and officials. Although the Kennedy Institute will not completely make up for Harvard's misplacement (or Washington's), it will be a great deal better than nothing and should foster closer ties between the Government and academia...