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...page. Further, the new amendments permit a citizen to appeal to the courts if an agency refuses to turn over documents; it is up to the Government to prove that the material must be kept secret to preserve national security, protect confidential sources or for some other valid reason. If a judge agrees that the information was capriciously withheld, the official responsible may be reprimanded, suspended or even dismissed...
...some scientists think that Hoyle has raised a valid issue that might be resolved if more information was revealed about the discovery. For example, asks Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold: "Did Hewish first recognize that the signals were of a sidereal nature - coming from a source that rises and sets each day with the stars rather than the sun - or was it Miss Bell?" If so, says Gold, "she deserves a major share of the honor." For, he adds, "that realization would have been the first firm indication that the signals were coming from beyond the solar system and represented...
...Administration's arguments, while valid up to a point, are not totally convincing. For one thing, some Administration officials privately concede that the present government will probably fall sooner or later; to avoid any appearance of abandoning an ally, they would prefer to give it the extra aid anyway. U.S. policymakers, however, want to separate Cambodia from Viet Nam, where, the Administration feels, greater stakes are involved. It thus wants to convince the legislators that the extra $300 million of military aid to comparatively strong and well-equipped South Viet Nam would be of real help to Saigon...
Doubtless on the great anthropomorphic ocean every swell believes it self the wave of the future. But given present populations and food sources, Barkas' prophecy seems valid: the vegetable passion is no longer a joke. It is likely to gain adherents and political significance in the next decades. There may even come a day when it provokes books of vigor and practicality instead of green, leafy prattle. ∎Stefan Kanfer
...come to depend upon. He was fat, 45, and frustrated in his ambition to be a great writer. Indeed, he was afraid that nothing he had ever written would last, that in his columns he was preaching only to those already converted. His aloof, critical onlooker's ethic, valid professionally, no longer could sustain his life. As he himself says, in the third-person prose that achieves objectivity. "His sense of self had finally required of him that he go into the pit." And once having seen the hostages huddled in their ring and having heard the impassioned speeches...