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...studying the question of rationing, the Administration is just as divided and uncertain as it has been all along in its foot-dragging approach to the energy problem. Interior Secretary Rogers Morton has said that there is a good chance that gasoline rationing will be in force by January. Treasury Secretary George Shultz, a free-market advocate who is an Implacable foe of all controls, vigorously opposes rationing except as a "last resort," arguing that people are overreacting to the crisis. Shultz prefers to pile on taxes to curb consumption. One certainty: a fuel tax would add substantially to already...
...likely to inspire many members of Congress to a closer examination of whether preferential trade advantages to the Soviets-that is, credits and advanced technology-are in the U.S. interest. "Trade should be seen, and I think now it will be seen, as a straight trade-off," says Morton Halperin, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former National Security Council member. "What can we get for those concessions...
...study, Morton A. Lieberman, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, interviewed 85 people between 63 and 91 who, at the beginning of the experiment, were on the waiting lists of three Chicago homes for the aged. All were physically and mentally well before admission to the homes. One year later, 62 of the original sample were interviewed again (23 were unavailable because of death, illness or unwillingness to continue participating in the study). Lieberman found that 44 of the subjects had survived the stress of relocation intact, while the rest had deteriorated markedly. The intact group turned...
...Harvey Brooks, dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics; David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; Kenneth R. Andrews, David Professor of Business Administration; Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Amyas Ames '28 and Calvin H. Plimpton, both Overseers; and John Morton Blum '43 and Charles P. Slichter '45, members of the Corporation...
Administration officials were quick to emphasize that these steps by no means end the danger of a shortage; they will do nothing to increase the supply of scarce fuels. Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton said the Administration will be satisfied if it can merely "spread the discomfort out and spread it out so thinly that it is not going to have any kind of drastic effect on the economy or the lifestyle" of the public. Whether that goal can be accomplished, Morton added, is "dependent on Old Man Winter and where he strikes, how long he strikes and what...