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...there are others of its caliber, Harvard included, which would probably take similar action under the same circumstances. Judge Haynsworth has provided relief for the much larger group of state university papers which now have a shield of their own against high-handed administrators and regents with political clout...
President Nixon has never relished the job of price controller, and last week he turned part of the responsibility over to someone he said had far more clout: the American housewife. At his news conference, the President asserted, in effect, that the Government can do nothing more to stop the spiral in food prices. Controls on agricultural products, he insisted, would only breed a black market. Then he added: "The greatest and most powerful weapon against high prices in this country is the American housewife. Her decisions . . . whether she buys something that is more expensive or less expensive, have...
...faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...
Today, blacks are gaining political freedom, expertise and considerable clout in some areas. At the same time, their new voting strength has pushed some old racist politicians into early retirement and encouraged progressive whites to try politics...
...cuts subsidies for public housing. The Office of Management and Budget, fighting to hold down federal spending, has proposed an 18-month moratorium on all Government commitments to finance new public-housing projects. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney is righting for some public-housing money, but his clout is reduced by his lame-duck status...