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...Cruel Choice." In the second test, separate groups of orthodox Jews contended that the blue laws discriminated against them. The reason: their religion requires that they refrain from working or buying on the Jewish Sabbath, which runs from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. Thus they cannot do business on either Saturday or Sunday...
...capacity, 30 points above its midwinter low. Some steelmen even predicted that total steel output in 1961 may hit between 100 million and 105 million tons, v. last year's 99 million. But despite this heartening news, the conventioneers all joined in singing a gloomily familiar refrain: it is time for a price rise...
...national defense. Arms control, as Schelling and Halperin explain it, is not something distinct or self-contained, not some item we inaugurate after negotiating an international agreement. Rather, they contend, arms control is an integral part of national security. Even at this moment, for example, we and the Russians refrain from certain actions, e.g. political assassinations, because abstention serves both blocs beneficially. Thus, we already have some arms control...
Finally, until he gains a better intuitive understanding of the limits within which he can act, the President should refrain from taking positions with such an air of finality that he later finds it unpleasant to extricate himself from them. The desire to save face is an understandable human attribute, but that does not make it commendable. Too often, the rigidity of the President's posture has hindered efforts to solve problems facing the College. Such was the case in the 1958 Memorial Church uproar, and again in the incomparably less important diploma business...
...Carnival! is first and last milieu; it keeps offering, a little redundantly, all sides of what has really no center. Sometimes the charm of Carnival! is real, sometimes synthetic. Sometimes the show expresses a circus world, sometimes it merely exploits it. Love, again, comes to seem more of a refrain than a reality, a happenstance that can make it peculiarly sweet in places but also quite mawkish in others. A famous axiom holds good in Carnival!: the audience's heart is most touched when least tugged...