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...Meat-inspection standards for processors and distributors covered only by state law became more stringent. The statute requires states to raise their standards to at least the federal levels already applied to meat sent across state lines. Other consumer-oriented legislation extended the Flammable Fabrics Act to include all fabrics used in clothing and household furnishings and established a National Commission on Product Safety to study potentially hazardous merchandise...
British press laws are among the most stringent in the Western world and newsmen are properly chary of them. Truth is never a defense. Even so, the London Sunday Times was not wary enough when it ran a picture caption descnbmg Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...
...reasonably intelligent or humane man had written your letter, he would have begun with a generous and candid recognition of the stringent moral and emotional predicament created for young men today by the war in Vietnam. Recognizing this, he would then have moved on to the problem raised by the drummer from Dow. He would properly and vigorously have condemned the physical detention of this hapless individual. But he would also have distinguished, as your letter did not, between my son and many others, whose only offense was a subsequent expression of solidarity through handing in their bursar's cards...
...letter to Robert W. Haney, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House, Schlesinger said that "any reasonably intelligent or humane man . . . (would have recognized) the stringent moral and emotional predicament created for young men today by the war in Vietnam...
...Making "pass" equivalent to a C-minus would obviously not be a very stringent requirement, but it would slightly restrict the number of students who could comfortably experiment under pass-fail. Because such a restriction is inconsistent with the plan's purpose, D-minus should be the minimum grade for "pass...