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Since his election, the Mayor has taken several high-level steps toward meeting his promises. First, he commissioned several studies directed toward government re-organization. Mitchell Sviridoff, director of the successful New Haven anti-poverty program, proposed a drastic re-organization of New York's badly fragmented anti-poverty structure. A Human Resources Administration, which will be headed by Sviridoff himself, has been created to oversee all poverty programs; quasi-independent community corporations will be organized in poverty areas to coordinate programs at the local level...
Freezing enthusiasts argue that their proposals for reanimating the dead conform to Christian teachings, which stress the sacredness of life; they even contend that refusal to be frozen might be construed as suicide. They concede that their program might compel some drastic rethinking in theology, ethics and law. For instance, in law, says Ettinger, "a new kind of manslaughter will appear, namely, the failure to freeze" -that is, somebody might pull the plug on the capsule. Similarly, says Ettinger, theologians might have to revise their concepts of the nature of the soul. There is no agreement, for instance, even...
...Pakistan and Nigeria, and is known as an expert troubleshooter. The report's main points: > Galloping inflation, which could yet undo all the benefits of the U.S. buildup by swamping Viet Nam's economy with more money than it can absorb, has been curbed by a drastic 50% devaluation of the piaster, as well as by new economic restraints worked out jointly by U.S. and Vietnamese officials. - Saigon's creaking dockyards, once a crucial brake on the war effort, have been more than doubled to handle 380,000 tons of cargo each month. An increase...
...best showing since February. Part of the improvement could be attributed to the resumed shipment of exports after Britain's 45-day seamen's strike. But Jay, a 59-year-old economist, thought there was more to the story than that. He felt that the drastic measures recently imposed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to hold down consumption and wages were beginning to take effect. "Deductions drawn from the figures for recent months were too gloomy," said Jay, ungloomily...
Slopping Over. Despite Huberts efforts to achieve a rapprochement, the evidence of the polls continues to gnaw at Lyndon Johnson. He can take solace from a couple of hopeful facts. One is that other Presidents have dipped to even more drastic depths of disfavor and have then recovered-most notably, Abe Lincoln in 1864 and Harry Truman in 1948. Another is that many citizens will eventually realize that Bobby has soared in the polls at least partly because he does not have to shoulder the onus of high office. "If Kennedy were President," says Democratic Congressman Morris Udall (Stewart...