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...develop a few more Captain Veres to play opposite his Billy Budd and that the marina-by-the-sanitary-canal may get no farther than the artist's sketch.Vinton W.Bacon isn't as mild-mannered as he looks. His iron hand tactics cleaned up Chicago sewer politics but now threaten to alienate the board whose support he needs...
...threaten confidentiality and to put an applicant in a position in which he is either dishonest or perhaps self-destructively truthful is not only unnecessary, it is immoral," Farnsworth said, destructively truthful is not unnecessary, it is immoral," Farnsworth said...
Clearly the initiative must not be used to introduce popular control willy-nilly over every branch of government. But the Vietnam resolution is no attempt to do this; it does not threaten the activities of any Cambridge body. Rather, the resolution is a reasonable attempt to do precisely what the City Council has clearly done clumsily: portray publicly the opinions of the citizens of Cambridge on the war in Vietnam...
...ever-widening spectrum of public opinion is at odds with his leadership: farmers threaten to withhold commodities unless prices rise; liberals urge a massive new assault on ghetto ills; conservatives demand tough antiriot legislation; critics of the war demand withdrawal or an all-out effort to smash the enemy. Republican support for Viet Nam is eroding. Last week Martin Luther King advocated "mass civil disobedience" to "cripple the operations of an oppressive society." Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke warned of "civil war" unless the President fights for his urban programs...
...Assembly look like a bad farce which suffers from delusions of grandeur. It seems fantastic that the United Nations can first ignite a house-fire by withdrawing the only peace-keeping force in the area, and then proclaim itself the only fire-engine on the block when the flames threaten the world community...