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...plan to exempt all college expenses looks very helpful," Raymond F. Howes of the Council said, "but this plan encourages student extravagance, costs the government a great deal, and affords most of the relief to upper income bracket parents who don't need it while doing little or nothing for the people who really feel the pinch...
...dossier is one of tyranny's most useful tools. Under the Communists, not even the highest official is exempt. In his dossier are recorded the youthful mistake, the relative's sin, the forgotten careless statement. The victim may walk free as air, but the dossier is like a terrible hook, invisibly lodged in his vitals. With a twitch of the string, it can bring a man down. It can even humble a nation...
This would be a natural for Harvard, and it is surprising that the usually astute and forward-looking Corporation has overlooked such an opportunity. Not only would it correct the unfair discrimination against the law students and exempt them also from an athletic fee, but there would be ample revenue left over to endow a couple of more scholarships or even a now theatre...
Reece's report attacks a far bigger target than tax-exempt foundations. It looks with a jaundiced eye on the social sciences and at empirical methods of scientific inquiry. It excoriates empiricism as the "fact-finding mania," the "fetish of statistics" and the "comptometer compulsion." It charges that the Kinsey reports (partially financed by the Rockefeller Foundation) are "socially dangerous." The report declares but does not prove: "The research in the social sciences with foundation support slants heavily to the left...
Congress is expected to do nothing whatever with Recce's report, which cost the taxpayers $115,000 to produce. Reece thinks that the foundations waste billions of what he regards as public funds, i.e., if there were no tax-exempt foundations, some of the money given to them would be collected in taxes. But Reece does not want to abolish tax exemption for foundations. Apparently, he wants sharper legal distinctions between "good" research, which would be tax exempt, and "bad" research, which would not be. Who is the judge between good and bad research? Obviously, Brazilla Carroll Reece thinks...