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...Interior Department has demanded a detailed environmental-safeguard report before construction can begin. Last month Interior Secretary Rogers Morton visited Alaska to see the route for himself. Oilmen, business leaders and Governor William Egan pleaded for a decision, but the permit is still not forthcoming. The angry Governor told TIME: "Oil was to be the catalyst to solve our economic difficulties. We are being kept from using our resources and controlling our own future." In turn, Morton recently complained about another delay: "The monkey is on the oil companies' back. I've been two-weeked and two-weeked...
...obvious lesson of the Pentagon papers is that bureaucracies do not always function as they are supposed to, especially in their primary role of advising the President. Less apparent are the reasons why. Leslie Gelb, 34, and Morton Halperin, 33, both middle-ranking officials in the Pentagon under Robert McNamara, played key roles in the preparation of the Viet Nam study, and are currently at work on books. Working separately, the two arrived at similar conclusions on bureaucratic breakdowns. Part of the answer, they suggest, lies in the "rules of the game" by which all Washington bureaucrats traditionally play. Some...
WITH the notable exception of Galbraith's exercises in sarcasm, books on business rarely win much public attention. Even before its official publication last week, however, America, Inc. had stirred widespread debate. The authors, Morton Mintz, a top investigative reporter for the Washington Post, and Jerry S. Cohen, former staff director of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, argue that big business is running the U.S.-and running it into the ground...
Cryogenic Euphoria. Unlike other successful ice cream chains, Baskin-Robbins has resisted the temptation to branch out into other foods. "It's one of the best franchises in the world," attests Morton Cohen, who owns a Baskin-Robbins store in Manhattan. "We don't sell cigarettes, sandwiches or coffee. This is what makes it a clean, old-fashioned ice cream place. We don't want tables for kids to hang around all day. Adults love to come to a store like this." But when they do, they often have in tow hungry tots bent on a bedtime...
...Spokesmen for the departments which are hiring women said that there had been little resistance to the idea. Morton Bloomfield. Chairman of the English Department, said that only a few "encrusted people" had balked at appointing a woman as lecturer...