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Philosophic Asset. Kennedy, who already has the backing of the A.F.L.-C.LO. and 25 liberal Senators, has been holding hearings around the country in an attempt to drum up broad public support for his plan. He stresses that only his bill would give the Government the leverage it needs to reform the entire health-care system. The Administration stresses the need for a more gradual approach and is courting the congressional center, which is already more attuned to the free-enterprise outlook of the Administration bill than to Kennedy's tack. "We have philosophy going for us," says White...
With all deference, I submit that lawyers who know how to think but have not learned how to behave are a menace and a liability, not an asset, to the administration of justice...
India's noble Prime Minister has taken the initiative to invite the thought of the world powers on this momentous human issue. Here I am, an old man of over seventy. with no asset but transcendental foolishness, to appeal to the majesty of America's university youths-the young masters of "student power." I have also appealed to Berkeley and Columbia youths as also Sorboune youths, remembering that there is a youth brotherhood across the world and beyond the frontiers...
...hair and beard trimmed before writing. Since then he has made the pre-cover clip a personal fetish and an office joke. Business Editor Marshall Loeb, who has edited all of Church's cover stories, finds the writer's affection for the whimsical an asset. Says Loeb: "George has the ability to write stories geared to both the general reader and the specialist. He is one of those rare journalists who can handle a tough topic with a bright touch...
Celebrated Creation. In some ways the men he has assembled are Stuttgart's strongest asset. Richard Cragun, born in Sacramento, Calif., and trained in Canada, Britain and Denmark, has vast reserves of power, grace and masculinity that make him one of the best dramatic male dancers anywhere. Egon Madsen, a youthful Dane with a baby face, skillfully alternates with Cragun in many dramatic roles: when Cragun is Romeo, Madsen is Mercutio and vice versa. Backing them both up in the rotational order is a German dancer, Heinz Clauss, whose black-clad Eugene Onegin seems as subtly menacing...