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...before, backpacking their way home to nature, the main trail up Mount Whitney has become about as lonely as Times Square on New Year's Eve. Last summer some 15,000 people made the trek, most camping overnight along the way. Verdant stands of timber were denuded by ax-happy hikers hunting for firewood, and trails became littered with trash...
Goon Squads. Even so, the workers are reluctant to join the Teamsters, whose four-year organizing drive has been conducted partly by ax-handle-wielding goon squads. Indeed, many farm workers seem ready to shun both unions. Last month, for example, the 100 employed at Keene Larson's 200-acre Coachella Valley vineyard-one of the first to sign with Chavez-voted two to one not to affiliate with either union...
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Denis Healey, 57, a wartime commando major and former Defense Secretary from 1964 to 1970. He now concedes that he is "a gamekeeper turned poacher." He is likely to wield a light ax where defense is concerned but supports orthodox financial policies...
...state that Professor Coase is "a British economist with no discernible political ax to grind." Maybe so. Nevertheless, I strongly suspect that he isn't a member (or honorary member) of, say, the A.D.A. Economists, including this one, do have political viewpoints...
...other Administration spokesmen occasionally hinted about Government intervention to break the "liberal monopoly" of the national press, the gambit was obviously a partisan effort to pressure rather than persuade. It is different with Professor Ronald H. Coase of the University of Chicago, a British economist with no discernible political ax to grind. He suggests that federal regulation of the press would be appropriate on social and economic principle. In a scholarly paper given before a recent New York City seminar, Coase broadened the Nixonians' argument by challenging the special status of the American press and assaulting the philosophical validity...