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Interest charges on that amount during fiscal 1967 will be $12.8 billion, more than the Government's total spending on health, education, welfare and labor. Yet the public atti tude toward deficits has changed from one of outright dis approval to resignation. So long as the deficit grows no faster than the nation's wealth or population, few people complain nowadays that the Government is going to hell in a hand basket. In fact, the national debt has declined in a real sense...
Craven Servility. For a change, the Authority and the Transport Workers Union found themselves on the same side of an argument. They sought dis missal of Weinstein's suit on the ground that as a "private citizen without special or peculiar interest," he lacked "standing"; they claimed that the law was "unworkable" and the strike could not have been settled without granting the workers a raise...
...A.M.A., scored significantly higher than the rest in such qualities as drive (the energy put into daily activities), leadership (the tendency to lead others, to manipulate people rather than things), and achievement (actual accomplishment, plus the degree of pride with which it was reported) -all personality traits, as dis tinct from IQ ratings...
...companion, an Air Force psycholo gist named Sheldon Freud ("a very dis tant cousin of Sigmund - fifth or sixth"), answered promptly: "Sit down and we'll order coffee." While they sipped their coffee at Doney's, the first man checked the dial on a small instrument hooked to his belt. He was noting his temperature. There was a wire leading from the gauge down his trousers to a rectal thermometer...
...newspaper ad offered a 19-in. portable TV set for $8.98, and crowds of pushing shoppers showed up last week at Manhattan's Masters Inc. dis count store to claim the bargain. Trou ble was that the price before the typo graphical error read $88.98. When Masters' clerks refused to sell the TV sets for $8.98, the crowd threatened to get out of hand. Masters' President Jack Haizen made a quick decision: he had the store closed, ordered the sets sold for the price in the ad-though he was not legally obliged...