Word: contend
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Close Watch. Still, though they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency...
...though the U.S. nuclear deterrent would seem to be a more effective persuader. Chemical and biological weapons offer an additional combat option-something to occupy the considerable middle ground between conventional weapons and nuclear warheads. Such an option may or may not be an advantage. Defenders of the program contend that certain forms of CBW could make combat relatively humane. Theoretically, chemicals could be perfected to the point where the enemy would not be killed but would be put out of action temporarily until he could be trundled off to a P.O.W. camp. That principle works well enough in riot...
TUCKER'S COUNTRYSID:, by George Selden, illustrated by Garth Williams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $3.95). In a sequel to The Cricket in Times Square, a citified cat and mouse visit a cricket and help him contend with dogs, bulldozers and other scourges of the countryside. The black and white illustrations are Garth Williams at his best...
Douglas and Black contend that the in dependence of the Supreme Court would be threatened if Justices were subject to any sort of overseeing or discipline - even by fellow jurists...
...office paperwork mess that since last June has kept the Big Board from conducting a normal 271-hour trading week. In addition, commission rates that member brokers charge to stock traders are under attack by the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and institutional investors. All of them contend that the cuts made in some rates last December did not go far enough. Finally, some member firms are clamoring for repeal of an exchange rule that prevents them from raising needed capital by selling their own stock to the public...