Word: unless
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Congress, says Burnham, is "the one major curb on the soaring executive and the unleashed bureaucracy." Rights and liberties written into law "have no practical meaning" unless there is an independent institutional power to uphold the law against the claims and encroachments of the executive power. Lacking any popular mandate, the courts are not powerful enough to withstand the executive power without Congress' help. "No Congress," he warns, "no liberty...
...already clear-and so was the lesson. Said Senator McClellan to the Times's Business Manager Amory Bradford: "It's a very sad commentary [when] one of the greatest publications in the country ... is subjected to a situation where the publication can absolutely be closed down unless they pay tribute." Moreover, the publishers did not succeed in purchasing peace: just last December, the Deliverers' union went on strike, kept New York's nine major dailies closed down for 19 days at an estimated total cost of $30 million...
...Administration does not contend that it will be possible to build three houses (including Quincy) without increasing the size of the College. About fifty more freshmen were admitted this year to fill the space opened by Quincy, which was supposed to take care of most deconversions. It follows that unless the room rent policy is radically revised, almost all the space opened by the two succeeding houses and by Leverett towers will go into pure expansion...
...These crimes coincided with news that President de Gaulle had commuted the death sentences of 30 F.L.N. terrorists. "Mistakes are being accumulated, murderers are being pardoned, terrorist outrages continue," said the right-wing Echo d'Alger bitterly. "On May 13 we shall abstain in silence and in mourning unless some new factor occurs...
Tall, broad-shouldered Fred Turner Jr., 62, has made millions out of oil wells, but his true love is a good thoroughbred. Says he: "I like to travel, but any place in the world becomes boring for me after a few days unless I have a purpose, and thoroughbreds are the answer." Last week, at Louisville's Churchill Downs, Turner's purpose paid off as his English-bred colt, Tomy Lee, won the Kentucky Derby and its $119,650 purse...