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...after all, Watergate was not all that bad, that its catastrophic results were out of all proportion to the wrongs that were done. It is conceivable, goes the reasoning, that he was only defending friends in the White House who had done stupid things, gone too far in their zeal. Or perhaps his only mistake was in getting caught...
...think Mr. Califano and his liberal friends realize, in their zeal to give money away, what a nightmare they are creating. They may eventually succeed in killing the goose that lays their golden eggs. The working, contributing people of this country cannot pay enough taxes to keep up with all of Califano's schemes for throwing money around...
DIED. Luther W. Youngdahl, 82, unflappable federal judge who in three famous rulings bucked the Government's anti-Communist zeal of the 1950s; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Youngdahl, a deeply religious son of Swedish immigrants, was appointed to the bench in 1951 after five years as a racket-busting Republican Governor of Minnesota. In 1952 he drew a Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when...
...such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material wellbeing. "At the heart of these problems, as he sees it, is the "rationalistic humanism "rooted in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, when "we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive zeal." Such materialistic development, he added, impels us inevitably from liberalism to radicalism to socialism, and finally to Communism. Even if we are spared war, Solzhenitsyn concluded, we face another calamity- "a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness...
...smaller scale, Califano has also made some strides, not without controversy. Calling cigarette puffing "slow-motion suicide," he has added $8.5 million to HEW's $30 million-a-year antismoking campaign. A reformed puffer, the Secretary is pushing the crusade with the righteous zeal of a convert. He argues that reduced smoking would cut back health problems?and the resulting HEW expenses...