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...retrain many of the jobless veterans of aerospace and help redirect others into different industries. Washington is doing little of that. Its unimaginative performance augurs poorly for the even larger conversion to peacetime that will come later. At M.I.T. and the University of California, HUD has opened about 25 cram courses to prepare technologists for public-service jobs. One of the few programs that provide extensive retraining is run at the University of California at Irvine, where participants study for a master's degree in environmental engineering. But only 34 people are taking the course...
...effect of such failings is that legislators are forced to cram much work into few days. Without staff help, they often have to rely on lobbyists to analyze what a bill might accomplish, to supply basic facts and often to write the very legislation. There is rarely any way to discourage a legislator from voting on measures that affect his own business or profession. The low pay makes lawmaking a part-time job in which the member's private interests may be his main reason for running...
...ploy is notably audacious and that it works. The time is the late Depression era. The place, of all places, is the classified-ad department of a New York daily, and the prime instrument for working evil is the telephone. Neely's notion of atmosphere is to cram his pages with nostalgic nouns from the '30s-the Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style murders have been luridly updated to include quite nasty details of sexual mutilation. As was the case with The Anderson Tapes last year, the book...
...northeastern segment of the U.S., west and south across New York. Now, a volunteer group of business and government executives from New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine is working hard to fill that need. Among the leaders of this unusual bit of interstate cooperation are Bartlett Cram, industrial consultant; Hamilton South, a former Marine brigadier general who is now a vice president of Albany's National Commercial Bank and Trust Co.; and Clifford Barnes, executive vice president of the Rutland, Vt., Chamber of Commerce. Their plan: tie the "Appalachia of New England" together with a 367-mile superexpressway...
...rebellious youth. Though he approves of their yearning to reestablish contact with organic life, Mumford is too rigorous a thinker to believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested the lessons of the past, not rejected them as irrelevant...