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...amendment is "badly-drafted," Harvard officials contend. "I couldn't cover all the faults in its wording in one conversation," Daniel Steiner '54 says, "but it is, to summarize, a case of taking a nice concept and applying it to a real-life situation where it'll have completely unintended consequences. It's as if I sat down and wrote a bill on the marketing of agricultural products in India--it might sound nice, but my knowledge of the subject would make the bill ludicrous in practice...
...will also cover the Middle East, European security problems and Soviet-American trade relations, to be "full, friendly and constructive." Privately, however, he was somewhat less optimistic. Although Kissinger, in the post-Nixon era, is freed from the burden of representing a President of precarious tenure, he must now contend with Soviet uncertainty about the continuity of foreign policy between past and present Washington Administrations. Soviet diplomats have been inquiring about the chances of Kissinger's own survival in office-which looks solid to most U.S. Administration watchers, despite recent attacks on him by journalists, academics and others...
Some economists, while not defending these legislative and regulatory inflexibilities, contend that abolishing them would have only a token effect on the rate of inflation. Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, for one, argues that such proposals are "conventional pieties" that bear "no relation whatever to the problem of remedying inflation." Other economists contend that the best measure of the importance of the sacred cows is the zeal with which special-interest groups have fought to enshrine them in law and regulatory practice. Killing them now would cause real pain for some groups, but the nation's interest...
...political moderates: Arthur Burns and Pat Moynihan in the White House, former Governors George Romney, Wally Hickel and John Volpe, as well as Robert Finch, in the Cabinet. But Kennedy's accident in July 1969 eliminated Nixon's need to keep moderates around. Chappaquiddick, the authors contend, opened the way for Nixon's harshly conservative advisers and image hucksters to take over...
...there is that note of redeeming social value to contend with. Screen writer Wynn (son of Keenan, grandson of Ed) has in the person of the warden wickedly parodied every businessman who ever exhorted his sales force with sporting metaphors, every overstuffed daddy who has lived out his fantasies of athletic glory by impersonating Vince Lombardi on a Little League field. The difference here is that the man has real guns, real power to extend and with hold favors. He is a genuinely frightening cautionary figure. It is too bad that the lessons his behavior might teach are often lost...