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Zuckerman, who looks a little like the Sundance Kid. wants to go to Law School, preferably at Harvard. He doesn't think his athletic career will help too much, though. "The criteria that got you into college and the criteria that get you into law school are different," he said. "You can't just be a jock with slightly above average grades...
...fear of accusation. of being racist and reactionary, has prevented open discussion of decisions handed down this year by the Committee of Fifteen (of Rights and Responsibilities). I write not to cite or pass judgment on what appears the differential treatment of violators according to racial criteria, but rather to suggest a model for the apparent attitude of the disciplinary body...
...patterns. Federal Judge Manuel Real found that Pasadena had failed to carry out integration plans and must act to eliminate segregation. School officials risked community wrath by deciding not to appeal the decision. But School Superintendent Ralph Hornbeck is understandably irritated. "It seems impossible to meet the court's criteria without compulsory busing," he explains. "Now all at once we have the President, the Congress and the chief attorney for the Justice Department saying they don't approve of busing." Hornbeck has written to Nixon asking for clarification "so that we may know which of the laws of the land...
...really only one reliable definition: if experts of the National Bureau of Economic Research decide to call a business decline a recession, so shall it be known. But the NBER only identifies recessions long after they have begun, and by a complex process that yields no hard and fast criteria. The behavior of gross national product, industrial production, employment, personal income and many other statistics are matched against their performance in past periods designated as recessions, and NBER analysts decide if the patterns are basically similar...
Semantic Fog. The closest thing to a Nixon Administration definition of recession is the "adjectival" standard advanced by McCracken: a recession is "a substantial and broadly based decline in business activity that runs for a considerable span of time." Presumably using some such criteria, Arthur Burns, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee two weeks ago that we do not have a recession and I do not think we are going to have it." A the same hearing, Burns and McCracken conceded that U.S. production is dropping and will probably remain flat...