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...thing does seem certain. Where there is big money around, politicians will spend it to get themselves elected, to increase their influence, to help their friends (personally as well as politically, it seems) and to confound their adversaries. It is an old, old game and the public often loses. Isn't it time to change the rules? We cannot make our leaders take a vow of poverty. But we can make ironclad restrictions preventing a candidate or public official from using his own money for any political or public purpose. The next clause should prevent one officeholder from "assisting...
...could have been a much nicer day for all concerned had not Mother Nature conspired to drop temperatures to about 40 degrees and to send the wind howling out of the west to confound and befuddle offensive kickers on both teams...
...less apocalyptic prophets like Economist Robert Heilbroner have taken a dim view of man's future. To British Science Writer Adrian Berry, tomorrow is not all that bleak. In a forthcoming book, The Next Ten Thousand Years (Saturday Review Press/E.P. Button; $8.95), Berry boldly predicts that technology will confound the prophets of doomsday. What is more, he says, mankind will eventually reach out to tap the resources of the entire solar system and, ultimately, the far reaches of the galaxy...
...original whose following keeps coming back for more. "The whole trouble with this era," muses Frazier, "is that there is very little eccentricity. An age is great in art and every other way in proportion to the eccentrics who thrive in that time." What other eccentric would confound his readers by observing the Red Sox's winning baseball opener in Latin...
...purpose of a university. These people study American foreign policy or Vietnamese culture not because they wish to plan aggressive war or destroy Vietnam, but because they seek to push outward the frontiers of knowledge and enable people everywhere to grapple a bit better with the problems which confound...