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Plucked Arm. Last year Gardner became chairman of Johnson's special task force on education which, the President reported last week, "helped to plant the seed bed of the education harvest that has been produced by the 89th Congress." Recommendations by the task force formed the basis for key sections of Johnson's $1.3 billion federal-aid-to-education law passed this year. A month ago, an aide strongly recommended Gardner to Johnson as a replacement for Celebrezze-and Gardner started undergoing the well-known Lyndon look-over...
...bitter contrast, skyrocketing food costs leave the average citizen poorer than ever. Though the 1965 harvest well exceeds last year's, rice prices have risen by a third since January. Much of the profit is pocketed by Saigon's Chinese merchants, who callously corner the markets in scarce commodities. So rather than exporting rice this year, South Viet Nam has been forced to import fully 50,000 tons from...
...course, are the fault of the Viet Cong. Outside the capital, the Communists concentrate on cutting supply lines. The railroad to Hue, South Viet Nam's ancient Buddhist center far to the north, has not been used for a year. Route 4, over which most of the rich harvest of the Mekong Delta moves to Saigon, is mined with jolting frequency. The road from mountainous Dalat-source of the capital's vegetables and fruit-can be traversed only by army truck convoys. On back-country roads last week, the Viet Cong coolly halted traffic, confiscated bikes, cars...
...came from the computers: mindful that the Internal Revenue Service is checking a growing number of tax returns at its eight computing centers (it will eventually check all of them), taxpayers have become more scrupulous in reporting their income. This enforced honesty added $200-$300 million more to the harvest...
Depth of Emotion. Such agile verse, composed over three decades, has established Phyllis McGinley as one of the most widely read and acclaimed poets in the U.S., with a harvest of honors that include the Pulitzer Prize, Notre Dame's Laetare Medal and more honorary degrees than she can remember (it's nine, she thinks). Although her métier is light verse, Poet W. H. Auden sets her high on the Parnassian hill. "Where do you place work like Pope's Rape of the Lock?" he asks. "You could equally call it light verse or marvelous...