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Howe, of course, was right. But the tendency, even among local officials who would be the first to defend states' rights, is to follow the formula: Washington proposes, and Washington disposes. Clearly, the cure lies in a redistribution of powers-with more responsibilities assigned to state and local governments and to private enterprise as well. President Johnson likes to apply the phrase "creative federalism" to this partnership-meaning that Washington will furnish the muscle and the money for the nation's vast social progress while local officials expend their energy and ingenuity on making the programs work...
...Others ($6.95), the other a U.S. study, When Americans Complain ($3.95). Although the U.S. is rich in responsive administrators and procedural safeguards against official abuse, says Gellhorn, the country's channels of complaint are so clogged that citizens either get no hearing or win isolated victories that rarely cure the root causes of their grievances...
...long century since Raynaud's disease was described by the French physician for whom it is named, the medical profession has learned little about either its cause or any possible cure. Its symptoms remain naggingly familiar. The victim is usually a ma ture woman, who first notices the trou ble in her 20s. The slightest chill can slow her peripheral circulation until her hands, feet, the tip of her nose and the edges of her ears turn blue and ache excruciatingly from oxygen shortage...
...cure me seemed hard even to Him who created...
Commander George C. Scott promptly pulls some ranky-pranky: he sends Tony off on rest cure and then merrily moves in for the kill. Tony in retaliation tells Virna that Scott has "grabbed the Big Knob" in combat over Korea, and then merrily marries the girl before his rival can edit the obit. Scott in reprisal busts up the formation again. Tony is shipped off to arctic survival school, where the poor twerp shaves in leftover coffee, sleeps with a nice warm sled dog and sits miserably slurping puree of blubber in the path of a polar blizzard. Scott meanwhile...