Word: true
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...INSTANT REBUTTAL. 'The President has the right to communicate with the people who elected him," said Agnew, "without having the President's words and thoughts characterized through the prejudices of hostile critics before they can be digested." It is true that a commentator can assure himself of a vast automatic audience by following the President on the air, and the instant rebuttals or analyses are often feeble. But in the case of the Viet Nam speech, reporters had an hour to study the text before Nixon spoke; they were also briefed on the contents by White House advisers...
Another thing about the cops, which must be true of everyone who was in Washington. They were awed. They had a sense that even though they had the guns. the gas, and the government, they didn't have all the power. In the face of so many people the cops knew that they simply couldn't wield their mechanical powers with the arrogance that characterized the Chicago pigs...
Certainly, very few of the crowd would probably be willing to take the consequences of being true revolutionaries in America now-bullets rather than tear gas. But they showed more radical political sophistication in this situation than in similar recent actions. The issues on which they based the confrontation-the war and freedom for political prisoners-were weightier than issues such as a people's park or even an open political convention in Chicago last year...
...lyrics are rather less saccharine than most C and W songs, but a couple of the tearjerkers are still there. True country music has simplified the job of the songwriter considerably. The major themes of the genre are "home, sweet home," Mother, and the girl-friend who is off with another man. Creativity is not a criterion...
...note of local financial history to your article of November 6th, which was headlined: "Dean Ford Forecasts Large Faculty Deficit?" It has been true in recent years that the budgeted income for an academic year has turned out to be under-estimated and the budgeted expenditures have turned out to be over-estimated, when compared with the actual year-end results. While it is of current interest to know how the budget estimates compared with actual results in any single year, it may be helpful also to review the trend of actual results over a period of years (and ignore...