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Some of this country's most cherished rights are too often sold to the highest bidder, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors said last night. "Too often we allow rights to be polluted by dollars and the market," he said...
...torn down the veneer of awe that used to separate the fan and the player. The player has become a highly publicized, salaried worker. He has stepped down from the pedestal as a result of his own doing. Like other American workers, he goes to the highest bidder...
Martha Mitchell is being courted assiduously by New York publishers. Her autobiography, written with Journalist Winzola McLendon, will include such tidbits as the fact that Martha as a young girl knew Bebe Rebozo long before President Nixon did. An editor at Doubleday, a serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit...
Each winning bidder in auctions beginning in January will have to invest $200 million to $250 million just to get the oil out of the rock. Return on that investment will be slow, because construction of mines and refineries will take about five years. The first plants are expected to produce 250,000 bbl. of shale oil a day. That is only 1% of the nation's daily demand for oil-"a teacup," says one oilman. The justification is that if all goes well, the shale-oil industry could be expanded to provide 1 million...
...course, awarding ambassadorships to the highest bidder is not new. Yet both the practice and the prices seem to be on the rise. In his first term Nixon gave 15 embassies to generous noncareer diplomats-more than twice as many as John F. Kennedy, and one-third more than Lyndon B. Johnson. Certainly it is high time to take the embassies out of the pork barrel...