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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...federal tax revenues with the states. It had so altered another Nixon reform, a manpower retraining act designed to consolidate various antipoverty programs, that the President last week vetoed the resulting bill. His main complaint was that it provided too much money for what he called "dead-end, W.P.A.-type" public service jobs...
Double Capacity. One U.S. naval official describes the Cienfuegos base as "smaller than Holy Loch and larger than Rota," referring to U.S. nuclear submarine bases in Scotland and Spain. It could service any of the Soviet navy's 76 nuclear submarines, including those of the Polaris-type Yankee class, of which the Soviets presently have 13. The practical strategic effect of the base will be to double the Soviets' nuclear submarine capability in American waters; one Yankee submarine will be able to perform a surveillance mission that required two such ships before...
...problem. Hospital committees were formed to write letters to the newspaper's advertisers protesting the articles. "I feel so strongly about these articles," wrote Mrs. Wilma Schmidt, director of nursing, "that I would not be able to do business with any company that continues to support this type of sensational journalism. I'm sure many of our employees feel this way." A list of Weekender advertisers was posted on the hospital's bulletin board; people on the list began getting anonymous phone calls ranging from obscene to threatening...
Ragging the rich is an old, though declining" sport. If Wolfe merely ran on like that, he might be dismissed as a frivolous type who has done little more than shoot fish in a brandy snifter. Happily, the gathering−and with it Tom Wolfe's look-homeward-recording-angel prose−Soon begins to reflect depths of confusion and true social comedy. There is a remarkable moment when Panther Defense Minister Don Cox talks of police harassment, evoking the Reichstag fire (blacks now, Jews next is the thought), then reads the Declaration of Independence to justify talk about...
...staff should have gone into the community long ago, and it is ironic that only in a desperate attempt to save its life is it fulfilling the purpose for which it was set up. Had there been the type of community interaction originally envisioned, the present crisis might have been averted...