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...youths who are terrorizing the cities often belong to gangs, but gone are the old-style rumbles with switchblade knives and zip guns (see box page 12). Even criminals are frightened to work the streets in big-city areas. "I myself walk light when I'm in the ghetto," says...
...receive regular reports on the city budget so as to be able to sound the alarm if the city turns profligate anew. Current-expense items now make up 40% of the capital budget: over the next decade they will be put back in the current operating budget where they belong. The city will be limited in its short-term borrowing to $8 billion, which will be shaved over a four-year period to $6.2 billion...
Anyway, Steven Simpson '66, also a lawyer and co-chairman of the powerful Harvard schools and scholarships committee of Philadelphia, says many of the alumni belong to the exclusive Merion and Philadelphia Cricket Clubs and other private clubs that make owning a large Harvard clubhouse in town superfluous. Simpson explains that most alumni nowadays don't live in center city, but more often come home to the Main Line in fashionable southwest Philadelphia or Chestnut Hill, the silkstocking district that barely falls within the city's northwestern limits...
...agreement among 29 countries, which is managed by the London-based International Tin Council, consisting of producers and consumers. (The U.S. does not belong.) The council maintains the metal's price within a specified range, principally by selling from buffer stocks when demand is high and imposing export quotas to restrict production when prices are falling...
...caused the United States to "lose Vietnam," but for now they are satisfied to forgive if everyone else will forget. And the liberals are willing to play along. Men like Hartke still get up to say that they were right all along about Vietnam, that we didn't belong there and that we couldn't win, but there will be no finger-pointing from either side. That way nobody gets hurt, at least not until the next time around...