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...fellow Amurricun," I am appalled at the President's apparent concept of "judicious restraint" applied this week in the Gulf of Tonkin. If a neighbor's child hits yours, do you cut off your neighbor's hand-and then proudly proclaim your "limited and fitting response" because you didn't kill both parents? I am disappointed that my country has chosen to play the role of the strong young father stomping around the world with a bomb on his shoulder...
...Traditionally, the landowner owed practically no duty of care to trespassers. But this, too, is changing. For example, the unfolding doctrine of "attractive nuisance" holds that owners must protect trespassing children of tender years from enticing dangers that they cannot understand. Until recently, the courts refused to apply this concept to swimming pools. Parents were responsible for their tots who strayed into other people's pools. But in 1959, the California Supreme Court ruled in King v. Lennen that the owner of a poorly fenced pool was liable for the death of a 1½-year...
...just wouldn't do: too many voters might have disquieting visions in dark of night of a President Goldwater saying plaintively, as the rubble settled,"Well, what I really meant by that was...") At Hershey the Senator said,"Well, I think it was the Germans that originated this modern concept of peace through strength." The Germans?Peace? The revision of modern history is as complete as the name change of that Viennese paper-hanger, Herr Schickelgruber...
...discussion of Evanston's EMH program prompted a short discursion of Michael's general philosophy of educational administration. "In education, it's excellence for all, in whatever they do," Michael says with quiet conviction. He rejects the concept of an honor school, although he believes strongly in "a very heavily tracked curriculum in all subject areas on the basis of 'ability groups...
Across the U.S., summer schools were buzzing like clover patches. Gone is the concept of the summer-camp campus, peopled by bored schoolteachers and hostile flunkees; in their place are ambitious students who are turning the dolce far níente of the hot months into a time of busy-and sometimes oddball-learning...