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Such observations fairly spewed out when the editors of the UCLA Law Review asked nine constitutional experts to assess the Supreme Court's U.S. v. Nixon decision last summer in the case of the White House tapes. This week the Law Review will publish the responses as a legal symposium, and despite the popular admiration that greeted the court's ruling, the academics for the most part rated the opinion at barely a gentleman...
...modifications, the magazine finally decided to publish it. Why? It had been submitted by "two qualified scientists" with the backing of a major research institute; the subject was "worthy" of investigation; the paper would allow other researchers "to gauge the quality of the Stanford research and assess how much it is contributing to parapsychology...
...also be due to the desire of students to reduce the cost of schooling, or to a desire to begin professional training as soon as possible. At any rate, the factors that possibly account for the rise are so liable to fluctuation as to make this option difficult to assess...
There was little cheer as TIME'S Board of Economists met last week to analyze President Ford's proposals and assess prospects of the U.S. economy for the year ahead. All but one of the nine board members agreed without doubt that the nation is in recession, with little hope for recovery before late next year. Walter W. Heller of the University of Minnesota, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, went further than most, yet few disagreed with the thrust of his thinking: "We are driving this economy into very deep recession-the worst since...
Whatever the number of men who finally respond by the Jan. 31, 1975 deadline, the case-by-case review is certain to be a difficult task. To assess accurately the motives of men who evaded service as long as five years ago may prove impossible. There is a problem of equity too for the many men who sought status as conscientious objectors and would have served 24 months in alternate work, but were denied that classification by local draft boards. To ask them to take menial jobs now, when they have acquired careers and families, seems harsh. Many also became...