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...Despite Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan's threat at the strike's onset that President Ford would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to order the miners back to work if they rejected a tentative settlement, despite the continual release of memos from Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton decrying the growing number of lay-offs resulting from the "miners' strike"--indicating, apparently, that no one has lost his job due to the coal operators' recalcitrance--the initial response from Washington officials was, as The New York Times editorialist A.H. Raskin put it, "benign neglect." Members of the Executive...
Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, chairman of President Ford's Energy Resources Council, told reporters last week that the FEA report bolstered the arguments-which he and a small group of experts are preparing for the President's consideration-that an increased federal gasoline tax should be a part of the nation's energy policy. But Ford declared during a swing through the Southwest: "I don't know how many tunes I have to say we are not considering an additional gas tax." A spokesman for Morton quickly announced that the Secretary would not "push...
...fact, the experimental class set up in Newark's Morton Street School last year was designed to expose young children to a rigorous introduction to philosophy. It covered syllogistic inferences, universal and particular sentences, logic, differences of degree, relationships and styles of thought. The course was so successful that it is being introduced for fifth-and sixth-graders this week in other elementary schools in Newark and in Texas...
Better Reasoning. The pioneering course was put together by Matthew Lipman, 51, a philosophy professor at Montclair State College, who had long thought that primary schools could do a better job of teaching children to reason. "In the beginning it was hard, because the children were very excited," recalls Morton Street Teacher Gerry Dawson. "By the end of the course, they were going to the library and taking volumes of the encyclopedia home...
...knew this basically in the fall of '69 from a number of people, one of them being Morton Halperin, one of them being John Vann, I'll mention him now because he's dead, and some other people in the government. I refer you to Roger Morris's piece in the Washington Monthly, in which Morris discloses--he was Kissinger's assistant--that Henry Kissinger came back from his first meeting with Xuan Thuy in September of 1969, and asked his staff including Morris to prepare full plans for a "savage" blow against North Vietnam that would bring them...