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...World War II, Japan's press has been scrupulously attentive to public opinion-and that opinion now is dead-set against continuing violence in the streets. As Japan has revived and boomed in the postwar years, the press has conceived its role to be one of establishing a consensus, of strengthening the bonds of society. If the motivation of the Western press is the right to know, the basis of the Japanese press is to know what's right. "The 1960 rioting was a great lesson," Asahi Managing Editor Kikuo Tashiro told TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief...
Nugent in 2000. At Killeen, he felt most at home sentimentally: "My grandfather drove his longhorns across this prairie on the way to Abilene." But it was at Bal Harbour that he was more comfortable politically. Amid the shards of the Johnsonian consensus, most of big labor remains loyal. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has already endorsed the President for reelection. The latest federation convention whooped through a resolution supporting the Administration's Viet Nam policy and, with Walter Reuther absent, there was barely a skeptic to be found. Instead of end-the-war placards, Johnson spotted one promoting...
...students are expected to attend preliminary meetings on the top floor of Holyoke Center. The organizers of the study decided that, before they break down into subcommittees, they should try to define a model of what they want Harvard to become. This weekend's meetings will aim for a consensus on the ideal college the project should seek, they said...
...released nationally, starring Sandy Dennis. Point Blank, with Lee Marvin, is in its plot an old-fashioned shoot-em-down but in its technique a catalogue of the latest razzle-dazzle cinematography. Bonnie and Clyde is not only the sleeper of the decade but also, to a growing consensus of audiences and critics, the best movie of the year...
...consensus of the meeting was that medical reasons should not be the only legitimate excuses, Dean Ford said...