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...Element. The apparent finality did not daunt Shearin. He offered to take custody of Eisentrager and lined up a job for him as a probation counselor in Gaithersburg, Md. Last month he returned to Nevada to plead Eisentrager's case before the parole board. Though it had unanimously turned down the convict's parole bid once before, the board this time voted 4 to 2 for his release. One of the dissenters, Justice John Mowbray, who had sentenced Eisentrager originally, asked, "Why is this man being treated any differently than any lifer? Others in his same position think...
...Critical Point. Some of Nixon's closest advisers also had words for the President. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Nixon's former counselor and economic mentor, has long been urging him to take a more activist stand against inflation and set up a wage-price review board. Last week the Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate from 4¾% to 5% and said that its money-tightening move "reflected the board's concern over the continuation of substantial cost-push inflation in the economy...
...year's budget range up to the same figure-if the economy does not substantially improve. Aside from its economic effects, the deficit gives Nixon a negative political credit rating, particularly among the many Republicans who disapprove of unbalanced budgets. If the fat deficits continue, says one presidential counselor, they "could make Lyndon Johnson look like a fiscal conservative...
...case, their new values keep them from suffering as much anguish as previous generations would have endured in a similar situation. "In the '50s and early '60s, most students' faith in careerism was nearly as tenacious as their faith in the American dream," says Edward Dreyfus, a counselor at U.C.L.A. "Today, undergraduates tend to view a job as only part of their total person. Their identity is not going to be contingent upon their employment...
...which runs the nation's biggest college placement operation, all 1,200 copies of each issue of its Vocations for Social Change newsletter are eagerly snapped up. It advertises openings for such jobs as organizers to work with sugar-cane laborers in Louisiana ($70 a week) and a female counselor at Washington, D.C.'s Runaway House ($50 a week plus rent). There was also one offer last fall from a retired accountant in Far Rockaway, N.Y., who wanted to finance two "real drop-outs" in starting a combination school and commune...