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Massachusetts' Public Utilities Commission is equally indignant. Last week it put off an 11% rate increase, which New England Telephone & Telegraph had requested only days after the commission ordered it to clear up a long list of "unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper and inadequate" practices. In a hearing that piled up 607 pages of testimony, the commission heard stories of billing errors, "false" busy signals (which occur when circuits are overloaded), baffling difficulties in making long-distance calls and unreasonable installation delays...
...foggiest of where it used to be. Take the traditional college experience, for example. The fiercest barricades used to be social, not political-because the politics were personal, not ideological. It was more important to get in with the right people than get on with the struggle against an unjust world. The results, in those days, were relationships that were both sturdy and slightly sick...
...conflicts of interest in the business world. In his latest survey for TIME, Louis Harris has undertaken a study of moral attitudes among Americans in an effort to illuminate the changing U.S. moral climate. The results produce ample evidence that, despite considerable indignation at what they believe to be unjust, Americans in general are far more permissive about morals than they were only a few years...
...poll considered certain acts justified that have been overwhelmingly considered immoral in the past, Of those surveyed, 30% believe that the use of physical violence is justified in certain circumstances; that figure is 38% among those under 30 and 35% among white-collar workers. Overall, 29% also feel that unjust laws may be ignored, a figure that rises to 39% among those under 30 and to 38% among professional people, Divorce is sanctioned by 72% (84% among professionals), telling lies in certain circumstances by 59%, suicide by 12%, and ignoring a victim's cry for help-presumably to avoid...
Perhaps now we are a bitter people, but only because we feel that the world was, and is still, unjust toward us and that the "four bigs" took part in chasing us from our country. Neither Nasser nor Dayan nor the four bigs, who after killing the victim are trying now to revive him, can give peace to the region. Peace comes with justice, and justice means our return home...