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Against this confused backdrop, Richard Nixon last week delivered his long-promised message on the economy. Committed to cooling the economy through tight money and cutbacks in federal spending, the President had steadfastly refused to abandon his game plan despite the mounting pressure to take a more active role against inflation. Last week he bowed to the pressure and moved to meet his critics at least part way. The President still refused to pick up the jawbone that his predecessors had wielded on excessive wage and price rises. But he did at least pick up a wishbone and proposed three...
...boys. At Harvard University, in America, in the world, woman's position is widely recognized to be inferior. Women have learned to despise themselves. Resources, opportunities and honors available to men are denied to women . . . Not yet can we lay down our weapons, my sisters, nor must we abandon so long and difficult a battle. Everywhere an iniquitous male supremacy is rampant...
...blame: Those of us in positions to have moved more rapidly than we have to correct obvious abuses and shortcomings which have festered too long among us. Those responsible for instruction too long reluctant to re-examine traditional offerings and teaching methods, too little ready, not to abandon, but to enliven courses which have ceased to speak to the condition of the new young and which have failed to make attractive to them the achievement of the degree of freedom we enjoy, so painfully and slowly won. Those of various kinds, militantly on the defensive, disinclined to allow any claims...
...early this year at interest rates of 10.1%. U.S. banks slammed their loan windows, partly because too many of Penn Central's readily salable assets were already pledged as collateral. In desperation, the company tried in late May to raise $100 million in 25-year debentures, only to abandon the effort when underwriters reported that they could find no buyers, even at 101% interest...
...years later they were married. He was then in his 50s and Tullah only 24 or so, but she did not mind. "I was his Madonna. I wanted a spiritual man because, since 13, I was pursued by physically minded men." Tullah learned to love art, but did not abandon her passion for dancing-with the least encouragement, she will perform her interpretive act for friends whenever and wherever space is available. "My passions are art first, dancing second. Sex is just a hobby," she explains...