Word: upon
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...What banner of rationality and what pretense of right justifies and permits such aimless waste? We must demand distinction between freedoms and their abuse. Clamorous dissenters, along with the silent majority of us, would do well to meditate upon the ominous words of the historian of Rome (Livy): "Then let him observe how when discipline wavered, morality first tottered and then began the headlong plunge, until it has reached the present stale of affairs when we can tolerate neither our vices nor their remedies." CARLOS M. BARANANO Detroit
...supercilious mountebank operating as a false-front intellectual, and wholly dependent for effect upon his unquestioned virtuosity as a gesticulator with hands, face and words. ARNOLD B. LARSON Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...denounced the Soviet leaders as "something filthy and contemptible-like a dog's dirt," and Defense Minister Lin Piao accused them of bringing about "an all-round capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union." Then, even as glasses clinked in the Kremlin, both the Chinese and the Albanians called upon the Russians to overthrow the "renegade revisionist clique" in Moscow. With comrades such as these, the Soviet leaders were probably grateful when a cordial message arrived from Lyndon Johnson, offering "heartfelt greetings and best wishes...
France's nuclear force de frappe is the pride of Charles de Gaulle's old age, and he dotes upon it as part of his ultimate legacy to France. Last week De Gaulle journeyed south to Provence to see for himself how his offspring is growing. He watched a mock alert by Mirage bombers that can carry A-bombs, donned a white coat to tour a nuclear testing center at Cadarache and toasted workers with champagne at the huge Pierrelatte plant where uranium is enriched for use in a planned French H-bomb. The force will never approach...
Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, made the original proposal for the Advisory Council in the aftermath of the Dow demonstration. Hoffmann specified that such a committee should take up three questions: campus recruitment, the relation of Harvard to the Vietnam war, and agreed-upon forms of protest...