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Unfortunately, Calley is not eloquent enough--nor is the editing skillful enough--to allow the book to serve the only useful purpose it could have. Calley as an individual is not all that important in the story of the Vietnam war: but Sack's book could have helped us grapple...
Official Anger. Vogan's disclosures provoked a storm of official anger in the capital. Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton proclaimed the shootings a "national outrage," and his department promised to prosecute the hunters. Agents dispatched to Wyoming by Senator Gale McGee, before whose committee Vogan testified, had...
No Quick Ruling. Griswold urged the court to establish a standard that would allow the Government to prevent newspapers from publishing classified material that he claimed would do "great and irreparable harm" to the nation's security. In lower courts, the Government had alleged that willful disclosure of secret...
Into this comforting, wan world of theological thought came Reinhold Niebuhr, loosing the sobering wind of "Christian realism." Original sin stemming from Adam's fall was to be taken seriously but not literally, said Niebuhr. Man's great sin was willful pride, a universally "entrenched predatory self-interest...
Catch-Up. All could blame their immediate troubles on the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, a willful band of 13,000 men in an industry of half a million. The signalmen, who earn an average $3.87 per hour, walked out over a pay demand that would bring them a 55% wage...