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...crosscurrents revealed by the presidential primaries. Bedeviling as they may be for the candidates, the primaries serve a function beyond winnowing presidential contenders: they probe and test the American mood. There is in that mood a disturbing negative attitude toward politics and politicians. Princeton's Opinion Research Corp. finds that only 30% of those polled express "high trust and confidence" in "the office of the presidency," and only 20% have high trust in Congress. "We've got a disbelieving mood," observes Harry O'Neill, executive vice president of Opinion Research Corp. "People are upset about...
...trio of insiders who run Summa Corp., the umbrella company that controls many of Hughes' properties, had expected to find a will that left all or at least most of his estate to the tax-free Howard Hughes Medical Institute. They also expected to be named trustees of the institute and thus continue running the empire. The three are Frank William Gay, Summa's executive vice president; Nadine Henley, Hughes' longtime administrative assistant and senior vice president; and Chester Davis, an abrasive Wall Street lawyer who is general counsel...
...policies; Vorster's most recent official calls have been to Paraguay and Uruguay, two of Latin America's military dictatorships. Thus a trip to Israel was especially exhilarating, particularly since Afrikaners consider Israelis much like themselves-pioneers surrounded by enemies. They are, said the South African Broadcasting Corp. in an editorial applauding Vorster's trek, "the only two Western nations to have established themselves in a predominantly non-white part of the world...
Last week the Club reversed its position. At a three-day meeting in Philadelphia sponsored mainly by the First Pennsylvania Corp., a leading bank, speaker after speaker came out for more growth. Why? The Club's founder, Italian Industrialist Aurelio Peccei, says that Limits was intended to jolt people from the comfortable idea that present growth trends could continue indefinitely. That done, he says, the Club could then seek ways to close the widening gap between rich and poor nations-inequities that, if they continue, could all too easily lead to famine, pollution and war. The Club...
...program. Moreover, the State Board of Education has requested a $454 million appropriation to introduce the same type of program into secondary schools beginning in 1977. As Stanford Education Professor Michael Kirst says, "The general climate of opinion about E.C.E. is positive." Indeed, according to John Pincus, a Rand Corp. analyst and professed skeptic on educational reform, the California effort has the potential of becoming "the broadest reform in public education since the introduction of the comprehensive high school 75 years...