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...more personal terms," he said, "it gets down to what the Quakers call peace at the center-[which] means that whatever the storms are that may be roaring up or down, that the individual must have and retain that peace within him, and that will see him through all adversity...
...indescribable cost to the Republic." Buckley imagined a number of fanciful actions for which a President should be indicted, such as commuting the sentences of all federal prisoners or taking a six-month vacation. Notwithstanding such reductio ad absurdum, Buckley says, the principle remains: "Congress has got to retain the right to pass judgment on gross presidential abuses: the true, and studied, disrespect for the sophisticated obligations of office...
Contrary to most predictions that he would barely retain power, Trudeau, 54, emerged from last week's elections with a solid victory. "What Trudeau had going for him was precisely the malaise-roaring inflation and instability-of the industrialized world," reports TIME Correspondent William Mader. "The populace craved stability. It sensed that at this juncture there must be greater governmental strength...
...write a check for $500 or $1,000 for a man, if the candidate is a woman, they write a check for $100." A Harvard Business Review study shows that male executives are more apt to discipline women for minor infractions than men, go to far greater lengths to retain male employees, and tend to hire and promote male managers rather than females with virtually identical qualifications...
...election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back as 1972, recently directed the unsuccessful Senate effort to retain stand-by controls over wages and prices and has opposed the concept of federal revenue sharing on the grounds that some of the local governments receiving money are in better financial condition than Washington. He does not face strong opposition for reelection this year...