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...again a question surfaced concerning motoring one's aged self around. Welty said she continued to take the wheel, even though she found this approach-ramp business "like trying to enter an eggbeater." The vividness of the simile shows an author still polishing, still looking for the sharpest edge; it is a reflection of Welty today...
Last week the Government revealed that March housing starts had taken the sharpest drop (26.6%) since records began to be kept in 1959. That disclosure, which put new construction for the month at an annual rate of 1.6 million units, dashed hopes that a major housing boom might be at hand. Such a surge had seemed pos sible just a month ago on the strength of news that February home starts were at a 2.2 million annual pace, the briskest in eleven years...
America's central cities, which contain close to 30 percent of all households with incomes under $7000 a year, present the sharpest picture of the continuing persistence of poverty in this country. With close to 60 percent of Black families and over half of all Hispanic families, they pose the greatest challenge in terms of achieving racial equality and opportunity. More than any other part of America, cities raise fundamental questions for this country's future: Whether America's increasingly service-oriented economy can absorb low-killed workers; whether this society can deal with welfare dependency and the growth...
Relations with South Africa could provide one of the sharpest areas of conflict between the House and Senate. The House bill would bar U.S. citizens and companies from making new investments in South Africa because of its apartheid policy and would forbid American banks to lend money to the Pretoria government. In addition, the House voted to require all American businesses in South Africa employing more than 20 people to desegregate their work places, recognize labor unions, and offer equal pay to blacks and whites who do the same work...
...justify what he sees as whole slew of immoral actions by Israel. This argument is completely misconceived. The "Jewish taqiya" he describes does not exist. Anyone who has been to Israel would attest to the fact that government policy is constantly criticized by individuals and the press in the sharpest of terms. Israelis do not know the meaning of "unquestioning acceptance," Hasn't Mr. Kurzman heard of peace Now? It was this movement which held an anti government demonstration that drew one out of every six Israelis onto the streets of Tel Aviv...