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...efforts to get the country out of a recession. But at his senatorial confirmation hearing, Dillon managed to seem both fiscally sound and fiscally imaginative, came out in favor of the balanced budgets that conservatives wanted and the recession deficits that liberals felt necessary. He was approved without dissent...
World Law. The A.B.A. had already affirmed the principle of extending the rule of law world-wide as man's best hope for peace but only after bitter argument about how much surrender of U.S. sovereignty was required. Last week there seemed little dissent from the idea. In his keynote speech, the association's outgoing president, Whitney North Seymour, said flatly: "Most of us realize that anything like a durable peace will require increased reliance on international law and institu tions to apply it. Our Committee on World Peace Through Law is no egghead concept, no public relations...
...including many members, charge that this ponderous machinery keeps A.M.A. from reflecting the varied and open-minded attitudes of doctors themselves and gives rise to the common complaint that "we are respected as individuals but looked down on as a group." Yet no poll of medical opinion uncovers much dissent. Kansas Pathologist William Reals says, "It's the only voice the doctors have." His general-practitioner neighbor Walter Reazin adds: "I think its basic principles are right." If somewhat glacially, the House of Delegates does represent doctors. Yet A.M.A.'s week-to-week affairs must be left...
...Administration's foreign policy. The concept is no less dangerous because it is so old; Senator Vandenberg's aims no longer seem to apply. In a curious way the government has helped perpetuate the idea (Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined with too much talk of national purpose, has bred the singular philosophy that the Administration's planners are capable of producing a single, right foreign policy...
...selfincrimination. The error: when Stewart testified at his third trial, the prosecutor asked him whether it was true that he had not testified at his first two trials. Felix Frankfurter leaned forward to dispute that decision and. as he almost always does, added some pungent remarks to his written dissent. He chided the court for taking "an isolated sentence or two and making it color the whole trial" and for "turning a criminal appeal into a quest for error." On that. Earl Warren issued a rebuttal: "This is a lecture," he snapped. "This is a closing argument by a prosecutor...