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Trudeau picked up many of these themes during the campaign, but unlike his two major opponents-Conservative Robert Stanfield, 60, and the N.D.P.'s Lewis, 65, he talked about them in more optimistic terms. Lewis concentrated his attacks on multinational corporations, which he described as the root of all economic evil. Stanfield, who in two earlier elections was defeated by Trudeau, claimed that the country's economy was in such grave trouble that immediate wage and price freezes should be imposed. That hardly endeared him to his more conservative supporters, and since the poor showing of such controls...
...high degree of visibility distinguishes this county court judge. Four years after his 1965 appointment to the Buffalo city court, Republican Mattina won a ten-year term on the Erie County (N.Y.) court with bipartisan support. Refusing offers to run for statewide office, Mattina prefers to continue attacking root problems of urban society, among them alcoholism and unfair employment practices. A vigorous crusade against drug abuse has carried him from lecture halls to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury clinic, where he spent one vacation as a volunteer worker...
...root problem is not that strategies to meet such needs are not sought or devised, but that the intellectual tools and personal attitudes offered for the task are insufficient. For most of the past century, Western intellectuals--and this includes most Marxists--have been mired in hyper-skepticism. They have spent too much time throwing out old ideas without replacing them adequately. This situation reflects the influence of positivism, which instead of being maintained as a healthy questioning spirit designed to eliminate foggy metaphysics, has too often been transformed into a worship of the tangible and measurable, and an inordinate...
...basic faith in the system. Sometimes the hearings go on into the night. At the dinner break he gets into a car with an aide and they put the windows down and drive through mellow Washington nights talking about it all, stop for Colonel Sanders chicken and root beer, hurry back to the hearing. When it is over, Mezvinsky rushes away from reporters and home to be alone with his ideas. His sleep is fitful. Often he will awake with an idea, get out of bed and write it down...
Tropical Klondike. The illegal emerald trade has slowed somewhat since last July, when the government sent in an army division to seal off the biggest mining area and root out thousands of squatters, grifters and smugglers who had turned the zone into a kind of tropical Klondike. Yet many prospectors continue to slip by the army patrols, hole up in caves by day and dig for emeralds through the night with the help of masked flashlights. The army itself is not immune to emerald fever. Says Willis Bronkie, one of Bogota's biggest and most successful emerald dealers...