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Nelson A. Rockefeller has been a good governor of New York for eight years. He has demanded stringent air and water pollution control programs, and fought a recalcitrant state legislature to get appropriations for secondary and elementary education. The expanding, high-quality State University of New York is an ornament of his tenure, and may one day rival California's in size and excellence...
Britain's deflationary policy may be turning out to be all too stringent. Through high taxes and credit restrictions, Prime Minister Harold Wilson is trying to reduce consumer spending and raise exports and investments. But Wilson realizes that it is hard to cut consumer spending without simultaneously drying up investment-because in large part, investment is a response to demand. The country, headlined the Guardian, appears to be HEADING FOR A DEEP RECESSION...
...miles from Sioux City to Omaha in hopes of becoming an AID aide. "I've wanted to do something for my country since I was a kid," said Werp, who has a physical disability that kept him out of military service. Volunteers must meet demanding professional requirements, pass stringent medical tests and undergo a security check. The toughest hurdle is a linguistic-aptitude test, aimed at gauging their ability to learn the six-tone Vietnamese tongue, that includes memorizing a string of Kurdish words. "Musicians do well on it," says Simpson. (So do Kurds...
...after six years of stringent economic controls under the Labor government of Clement Attlee, the Conservatives swept into power on a variant of an Old Testament exhortation: "Set the people free." Last week, as the Conservative Party met for its 84th annual convention in the seaside resort of Blackpool, the old slogan echoed again...
Until recently, Southern Congressmen who denounced the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...