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...organization's new members, the rolls could swell to more than 300,000 by next year. They could also shrink, and in that sense Common Cause faces a continued test. Says Gardner: "Our record is fairly well known now. A year ago, a membership prospect got a blueprint. Now he gets a track record...
Side Effects. Tokyo has never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists...
When President Nixon delivered his first major message on the environment to Congress last year, it contained 14 executive orders and 23 requests for legislative acts, the most comprehensive such program that a chief executive had ever proposed. Last week Nixon produced an even better blueprint, one clearly attuned to the "disturbing regularity" of assorted alarms (oil spills, mercury, smog). Whether the blueprint will become law remains to be seen...
What will he do behind bars? "I worry about keeping my health. I'm going to study. I'm going to learn about architecture. I want to be able to read a blueprint. I'm going to study accounting and literature. I'm going to come out a better man than I went in." When he gets out, perhaps in 18 months, Baker intends to write a book. "I want to make some positive suggestions for the improvement of the nation." Corny? Yes. Hypocritical? Maybe. A typical Bobby Bakerism? Certainly...
...most uncommon commoner Britain has ever produced. He abolished monarchial rule, reformed the law, drew the blueprint for religious freedom. Yet he was preceded by one King Charles and followed by another. His followers were reviled or executed; his anti-Catholicism was notorious. Oliver Cromwell described himself as "a miserable and wretched creature"-but as Lord Protector he strode through England as God's appointed messenger...