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...sure of Galbraith's role as a critic, he seems to have proved himself as a prophet: "A picture on the cover of TIME magazine, as any perceptive recipient of the honor must know, is taken by a large number of people to mean that the individual is henceforth much more in need of expert criticism than applause." (From his book The Liberal Hour...
...feign forgetfulness about whether they voted aye or nay and interrupt roll calls to ask whether their vote has been recorded and how they voted. This is a time-spinning maneuver, enabling habitual latecomers-notably including New York's Bobby Kennedy and Illinois' Charles Percy-to vote. Henceforth, this maneuver is out. Instead, Senate clerks will make a "slow call" of the roll, which, its proponents insist, will give laggards at least 15 minutes to reach the chamber...
...crisis also brought about a stepped-up mobilization, which the U.S. military command has long encouraged. President Nguyen Van Thieu announced that henceforth every able-bodied man over 17 years of age would receive military training, also ended deferments for students and civil servants...
...civil rights. In New York, in a sharp speech delivered at the National Retail Merchants Association convention, Charles Y. Lazarus told his colleagues that they must personally take a part in the urban crisis that has storekeepers "living on a volcano." And Neiman-Marcus President Stanley Marcus announced that henceforth civil rights will be as important a factor as price, quality or delivery time in what his six Texas specialty stores in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston...
...concentration camp were not the answer, Travancas joked that it might be "a good idea." The next day, Sao Paulo newspapers bannered the news that Travancas planned to send all Sao Paulo businessmen to concentration camps. Amid the resulting uproar, Costa saw his chance and fired Travancas. Henceforth, said the government, tax collections in Brazil will be handled with "kindness...