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...emphasized that "in no sense is the suggested resolution a gag rule, as some have hastily said." We urge not that the President refrain from freely voicing his personal views, but simply that he and the vice-President be restrained in the manner that the resolution suggests, Hornblow said...
...strongly object to their association with his position as President of the S.C. Since it appears that a word of warning from the S.C. was insufficient to stop this practice, we suggest that Mr. Phillips might better understand a vote of consure and a formal demand that he scrupulously refrain from further misuse of the prestige of his office. Michael Hornblow '62, Edwin Winkier...
This view, held by many liberal Congressmen, is misguided. Investigations are properly conducted to gather evidence, not to punish. An investigation by Congress or the Attorney General should not be a Great Crusade. It should, to use a liberal cliche, refrain from "exposure for exposure's sake...
From all sides came the standard refrain: let Uncle Sam pay. Rising in the General Assembly's Budgetary Committee, U.S. Delegate Philip Klutznick sharply reminded the delegates that the U.N. would be stone broke "in a matter of weeks." If the nations do not pay up. he added, "this will be looked on as an era in which raised voices and small bills unpaid marked the beginning of the disintegration of another of mankind's great dreams." Hence, the U.S. would chip in "a sizable voluntary contribution" beyond its normal 32.51% quota, just as it had done...
...found less vivacious and easily distracted. But Von Frisch was quick to warn against comparing the behavior of his honeybees with the human inhabitants of the same regions. "Look at the German bee," he said. "It shows distinct signs of sloppiness and lack of industriousness. I intentionally refrain from drawing parallels between the social habits of bees and the human race, except when I can prove that bees are more democratic. On the whole, drawing such conclusions should be left to the philosophers...