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...constitutional provisions would lead "not just to mal-apportioned legislatures, but to segregated schools, a revival of the Federal Sedition Act, and unfettered state control over speech, religion, press and assembly as well." He contends, in a bold generalization, that such deference is nothing more than an "Occidental variant of ancestor worship" and an "incomprehensible denigration of man's capacity for self-government." Self-government means that we, not our ancestors, must rule ourselves...
...Johnson came into the presidency worrying about the wisdom of large deficits and questioning the need for a tax cut, but he was convinced by the Keynesian economists around him, and hurried the measure through Congress. The quick success of the income-tax cuts prompted Congress to try a variant: the reduction this year of excise taxes on such goods as furs, jewelry and cars...
...around the end of November and anxious to learn how, when and if the U.S. plans to allow a German voice in NATO nuclear strategy, Washington was still talking about the all-but-abandoned Multilateral Force concept (rejected by De Gaulle from the start). Britain's variant Atlantic Nuclear Force, and a "select committee" concept, favored by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, under which NATO allies would take nuclear decisions collectively. With the NATO treaty due to expire in 1969 and De Gaulle clearly threatening to pull out of the alliance, Washington planners were quietly looking ahead to the possibilities...
...some 25 other states, say the authors, Texas requires the defense to prove that an allegedly insane defendant did not know right from wrong at the time of his crime. Undaunted, Belli insisted that Ruby shot Oswald as the result of an extremely rare epileptic seizure called a "psychomotor variant...
...courts. Even though Guttmacher offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...