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...caught in a cross fire of different interests: residents, business, and M.I.T., all pleading that they be saved from the Belt. Most councillors apparently decided that the risks of recommending any route were simply too great. But not making a recommendation was, as the Council's critics pointed out, implicit acceptance of Brookline...
This was the situation, at least, in Europe. In Asia we hoped to reach a similar implicit understanding with China: no big wars, and a firm division of territory. But in trying to stretch our model of the international system into Asia, Oglesby argues, we exposed some of its most inhuman possibilities. The principles which gave Western Europe a benevolent heaven of Marshall aid yielded in Asia a napalm-filled bell...
...five. He grasped at every parliamentary mistake made by an inexperienced Mayor Hayes. With his colleagues, Alfred E. Vellucci and Thomas H.D. Mahoney, he injected into the meetings the most intimate details of political maneuvering that preceded the mayor's election and the suspension of Curry. The threat was implicit: the meetings proceeded only at great risk to the political reputations of the five anti-Curry councillors. But this strategy alone failed to work, and a variety of other specters were raised before the Council...
...that event, a revenue increase of $6 billion would be a meager defense against inflation. And if the budget's implicit assumption that the Vietnam war can be kept in hand is not borne out, the $6 billion increase in revenues will be no defense...
...Among "serious inadequacies" in the budgetary process, said C.E.D., is insufficient programming by Government departments, despite Johnson's orders last August to all federal organizations to set up Pentagon-style computerized cost-analysis systems. The C.E.D. also faulted Congress, pointing out that it rarely debates overall policy questions implicit in the budget, such as a "rational balance" between space exploration and urban renewal, which might facilitate longer-range financing. Instead, the budget is studied piecemeal in subcommittees run by "strong chairmen not committed to a common program or even to common goals...