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...manpower training a boondoggle or a boon to those who are still unemployed? The Government's total effort is a complex of programs too diverse to support any generalization, except that manpower training has grown into a bureaucratic monstrosity. There are separate programs-many bearing such optimistic names as Apprenticeship Outreach, Operation Mainstream, JOBS, JUMP and WIN-for the urban poor and the rural poor; for blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Appalachian whites; for Viet Nam veterans, displaced aircraft engineers and welfare mothers...
...tearful farewell when it came down for Currier House, but Currier was designed tastefully of brick and it was outside the Quad anyway. True, Bertram Hall is old and decrepit, and renovation is overdue. Modernization similar to the treatment given to some dorms in the Yard would be a boon. But to raze Bertram for a prefabricated high-rise would be a sacrilege scarcely more defensible than leveling Mass Hall to build a mate for Holyoke Center...
Entitled Man-Made Philadelphia (M.I.T. Press; $3.95), the guide is a boon to tourists and may open Philadelphian eyes as well. Instead of starting with the usual panegyric to Founder William Penn, it begins with three pages of maps of major streets, bus routes and the subway system-the city's bone structure. The guide duly describes and portrays such Philadelphia splendors as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the old residential area of Society Hill, the Beaux Arts vistas of Ben Franklin Parkway. But the authors always remind the reader that there...
Horowitz said that a McGovern victory would, however, provide an indirect domestic boon to the left. "It's always better for the left to have a liberal in," he explained. "The atmosphere gets very good for organizing...
...money from the casino-hotels (which amounts to $5,000,000 a year in Swaziland alone) has proved a boon to the black states and their tiny national budgets. The only trouble is that some of the visitors have gone about their interracial socializing too ardently, and prostitution has become a problem. Swaziland's black administrators are also offended by the fact that some white South Africans have set up black mistresses in Swaziland and visit them frequently. The government is now considering a law that would "curb immoral sex" between local girls and visiting white South Africans. Such...