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McGovern's spending proclivities would seem to make controls even more essential for him than for Nixon, but he long talked as if controls were a bit of Nixon trickery that he intended to abolish quickly. He has now come around to advocating a control plan of his own, but it is still a less formal one than the President's. McGovern would replace the Pay Board and Price Commission with a single review board that would be part of the White House. After consulting with industry, labor and consumer representatives, the board would draw up guidelines...
Whether the Faculty decides to restructure or abolish the CRR, the CRR should at least be taught how to conduct a hearing. At one point. Messing wanted to ask for a ruling, but "didn't know the procedure." Bowersock replied "that's all right. We don't either. We're all new at this game...
...election campaign of Republican Governor Arch Moore, and the opponents of strip-mining are giving to the campaign of Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. One strip-mine operator concedes that the strippers have also accumulated $150,000 for the campaigns of state legislators who side with them. Laws to abolish this kind of mining are pending in the legislature...
...Faculty will meet today in special session to consider once again a revamping of the oftencritized Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. Instead of attempting to reform an institution whose claims to legitimacy in the University community have long since been dashed, the Faculty should move promptly to abolish...
Thus Nixon appears more hawkish on controls than McGovern. The Senator would abolish most statutory controls and substitute voluntary wage-price guidelines. He would, however, give the White House direct authority to order rollbacks of increases that flagrantly exceeded those standards. What changes Nixon might make in present controls is not at all clear. Administration officials hope that as inflation calms down they can progressively loosen the reins and make more exemptions. They expect the program ultimately to fade away-but how soon, no one will even guess...