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...LARGE degree, the staggering dimensions of the party's setback is a measure of the extent of popular disenchantment with it. In twenty years of undisputed authority, it had failed to tackle India's chronic food shortage and, in the two years before the elections, that shortage had become extremely acute thanks to unprecedented drought in the provinces of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. Prices had been spiralling upwards, essentials of life obtainable only after prolonged and humble striving. Nor could the Congress project hope that the situation would improve after a while. Its performance in the monsoon session...
Though researchers have not been able to prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship between air pollution and disease, they have found that the incidence of chronic bronchitis among British mailmen who deliver mail in areas with heavy air pollution is three times as high as among mailmen who work in cleaner regions. Researchers also know that there are more deaths from chronic pulmonary disease in high-pollution areas of Buffalo than in other neighborhoods. Boston policemen working around high concentrations of carbon monoxide seem more susceptible to the common cold...
Married. Paul Hornung, 31, pro football's "Golden Boy" since 1956, now contemplating retirement from the champion Green Bay Packers because of a chronic pinched nerve in his neck; and Pat Roeder, 29, aspiring actress; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills...
Focus on the Future. So rapidly have programs multiplied that fragmentation and lack of coordination are chronic. The inevitable consequence has been a withering fusillade of criticism aimed at the Great Society. Democratic Governors complained to Johnson that his programs had sown confusion in their states by gorging them with cash and concepts that they were simply not prepared to handle. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged the 90th Congress to conduct a "top-to-bottom" re-evaluation of Great Society programs to repair "rough edges, overextensions, overlaps, and perhaps even significant gaps." Congress seems more than willing...
...stabilization law establishing budgetary controls. Meanwhile, the country's economic woes are bringing about other much-needed changes. With profits suddenly more elusive, German businessmen have begun to streamline their often inefficient and haphazard operations. Recession-minded workers are taking pains to increase productivity while cutting down their chronic absenteeism. At the same time, there has been a belated realization that something has to be done about the structure of the coal and steel industries, which have, thanks to unrealistic government subsidies, long overproduced. If inflation can be halted and recession averted, West Germany could emerge from the current...