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After Moscow agreed to trade five dissidents for two KGB spies in U.S. hands, it was the Americans who recommended that the actual swap be quiet and informal. Following a moderate round of embracing and speechmaking, the dissidents went on their separate ways last week without the U.S. Government making much of a fuss over them. Alexander Ginzburg and Georgi Vins moved temporarily to Vermont, Ginzburg to the baronially fenced estate of exiled Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish and Vins to the home of Olin Robison, a fellow Baptist minister and president of Middlebury College. Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov...
...first and biggest boost is made by the Saudi government. Its royalties, fees and taxes bring the price per barrel up to the cartel rate of $14.55, or 35? per gal. Shipping adds about $1.25 per bbl., or 3? per gal. But the actual cost of the journey is perhaps no more than a few cents a barrel. The difference is the profit for the tanker operators to help cover the expenses of maintaining huge, often idle fleets and sending empty tankers back to the Middle East...
...until the end of his report, where Bok names specific changes, that he steps on some toes. When he suggests that the school place less emphasis on the "case method" of teaching, he even smashes an idol or two. Under this method, teachers present details of actual business situations to their students, and force them to make decisions--using a Socratic questioning technique similar to that practised at the Law School...
...complicate the Federal Reserve's problem, it is becoming even tougher to make major policy decisions on the basis of money growth figures. Officially, the nation's money supply has not grown since October, and in the past three months, M-l (currency plus checking accounts) actually declined 1.5%. But Fed insiders believe that the actual stock of money that is available to be spent has been expanding by perhaps 6% to 7%. Reason: there is a proliferation of new financial devices that effectively enlarge the money supply but are not measured by the old standards. One of these innovations...
...know. The sixties died long before Phil Ochs wandered into his sister's bathroom in Far Rockaway, New York. And Marc Eliot makes a good case that Ochs did too. Phil Ochs went down slowly, painfully, and the actual moment of his death only confirmed what Ochs had guessed from the evidence of Chicago, or Kent State, or Chile. And by the time Ochs actually made his final break, the parts of his life that might have made his death the tombstone of his time had long since withered away...