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...ample evidence" that some of the tests reflect cultural value systems that are foreign to the underprivileged and therefore do not correctly assess their basic intelligence. As for medical rejects, military doctors will try to salvage the less serious of them by getting overweight men to diet away excess poundage. Next year, the doctors will also begin performing surgery on men with defects that can be put right in a short time, such as hernias...
...spending are due largely to the inflation caused by the war in Vietnam. For the first time, the Aid to Dependent Children program is becoming a political issue, and a rallying cry for those in northern cities who feel compelled to cloak their casual bigotry with cries of "fiscal excess." Furthermore, the victory of Jim Johnson, a racist with Goldwaterite notions about the role of government in American life, over a moderate in the Democratic primary for governor of Arkansas demonstrated that the voters opposed or tries of the vast state spending programs of Orval Faubus, as much as they...
Adams, who is a direct descendant of two presidents, said he was running for the Senate to oppose what he contended was President Johnson's excess exercise of power in foreign affairs...
Observes have interpreted Neustadt's statement as an attempt by the Administration to pressure the union into giving up the strike. A victory by the machinists, it is feared, would encourage other unions to seek contract settlements in excess of the guidelines set out by the Administration, resulting in an inflationary spiral...
Though the resemblance of Madness to Bondomania is otherwise superficial, Director Irvin Kershner savors the joke to excess. The rest of Elliott Baker's screenplay, adapted from his own 1964 novel and filmed with careful fidelity on the seedy side of Manhattan, is a fitfully funny satire based on a portrait of the artist as the natural enemy of all Establishment norms. This voguish half-truth worked well enough in book form, where nearly every character was a well-managed mass of lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director...