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...policy," says Roy Ash, former president of Litton Industries and new director of the Office of Management and Budget. Apparently Richard Nixon agrees. He has taken the advice of Ash and a council he headed that the Government should be reorganized to make it more responsive to presidential command. Though Congress failed to act on Nixon's larger plans-to merge six Cabinet departments into four-the President has gone right ahead and created a super-Cabinet by Executive order. The effort is receiving mixed reviews-as a laudable effort to streamline Government, or as a worrisome presidential grab...
...back his Executive Office staff from 4,216 to a little over 2,000-the number that existed when he took office. He will then have to deal with fewer people, as he prefers. When he gives an order, it will glide more swiftly down the chain of command...
Some survivors conclude, unconsciously, that they got out because they possessed a kind of magic invincibility For them, survival is "the moment of power," as Social Critic Elias Canetti puts it, and can confer a lasting sense of being in command of death. In other cases, a feeling of invulnerability precedes survival and can produce a cavalier attitude in the midst of danger. John Rauen Jr., a former Marine who survived World War II combat, reports that "I knew we were going to crash, but I didn't expect to die." Psychiatrist Stein calls this mental invincibility "the silver...
...orderly, for example-has not declined. Henle gives two reasons: an influx over the past few years of postwar babies, who despite generally higher educational levels act as a drag on the lower end of the job market, and an increase in women and part-time workers, who often command relatively low pay. In other words, employers have found so many people available to be hired for relatively little money that they have not gone all-out to upgrade jobs and salaries...
...Dartmouth's two firsts were the last they would get until late in the meet as the Crimson began to take complete command. The tally began inconspicuously as Harvard captain Fred Mitchell won his specialty, the 200-yd free...