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...respectable advertiser, for example, would fail to identify himself when he places an advertisement in order to sway public opinion; yet the return address on the envelope is the only identification of Gallo's advertisements when they arrive at The Crimson. By the same token, no respectable newspaper publishes unidentified political advertising. The company's first advertisement was published unidentified because of a technical error; The Crimson provided a standard identification line on the second advertisement...
...reasons, including the mistaken belief that an order to fire had been given, the fear that they were being fired upon, a desire to convince the mob to cease the barrage of rock throwing and general confusion." As a result, the parents and survivors can hope only for the token solace of damages in a series of civil suits now pending...
...Small Token. Even without that side trip, Kissinger's journey was an exhausting one. Besides trying to restore momentum to Middle East negotiations, he had talked about oil prices with the Shah of Iran and King Faisal (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) and had discussed East-West relations with Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest and aging Josip Broz Tito, now 82, in Belgrade, as well as with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. As a small token of the Soviet party chiefs hopes for a happy Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor...
...believe in Rockefeller and his heritage. Why shouldn't he express his gratitude to friends with a token gift of a porcelain figurine? This gesture was not a swindle at the expense of the taxpayer. The Carnegie, Rockefeller and Henry Ford families, through their endowments of Libraries and foundations, have contributed much to the peoples of the Americas and other countries...
Some economists, while not defending these legislative and regulatory inflexibilities, contend that abolishing them would have only a token effect on the rate of inflation. Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, for one, argues that such proposals are "conventional pieties" that bear "no relation whatever to the problem of remedying inflation." Other economists contend that the best measure of the importance of the sacred cows is the zeal with which special-interest groups have fought to enshrine them in law and regulatory practice. Killing them now would cause real pain for some groups, but the nation's interest...