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Members of Congress denounced the bombing as unconstitutional, pointing out that no Congressional decree even stretched to the utmost rendered the air war legal. Rumblings of funds cut-offs began to be heard in Washington, and even previously hawkish Congressmen began to line up against the Nixon war policy...
...accuracy and discretion. There were several serious racial confrontations in Boston in the past two weeks. But the events and reporting of them should serve notice to the news media that their role in influencing people and mobs is a vital one that must be handled with the utmost seriousness and discretion in reporting...
Ford, who has served as a congressman from Michigan for 25 years, promised that if he is confirmed he will "do my utmost to the best of my ability to serve my country well and to perform these duties that will be my assignment... with as much accomplishment as possible...
Watson has been instructed to investigate the problem of inequity in athletic opportunity. And he has been asked to come up with some solutions. We urge him to undertake this task, with utmost seriousness, and to deal with the situation fullly and comprehensively...
...other ways Geneen is a gambler on a monumental scale. Sampson neglects this facet of Geneen, although he does show that when Geneen acquired Hartford Insurance he knew full well that the antitrust division of the Justice Department would oppose him. In short, Sampson concludes, Geneen was under the utmost compulsion to try to change the trustbusters' collective mind...