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What to do with it all? AID officials will divert some of the goods to nations that the U.S. is still assisting, not to expand programs but to fill existing commitments. Foodstuffs, mainly rice, wheat and corn, will go primarily to Bangladesh, India and perhaps Egypt. But industrial goods pose a much tougher problem. They were intended for the sophisticated economic base that the U.S. wanted to build in South Viet Nam until the very end. (The Mayaguez, for instance, was unloading 3,000 tons of industrial goods-just what is still not clear-when it hastily had to leave...
Sources in the Sociology Department said yesterday that Lipset's departure left a "major gap," and that the department's main task next year would be to make plans to fill Lipset's position and possibly expand the department's faculty...
...United Presbyterian Church has 189, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 24 women in clerical posts. U.S. Judaism recently gained its second female rabbi. The number of women wearing the cloth is sure to expand soon because many more are in training. The proportion of women enrolled in the 195 schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools is now about 14%, up from 10% in 1972. But there have been greater changes in some of the leading schools. Women account for 41% (v. 31% three years...
...almost a year, O'Neill has continued to expand his vision with imaginative new details. He has become so convincing an advocate that this month, at a three-day conference in Princeton, 100 scientists, engineers, international lawyers and social scientists agreed that space colonization is not only possible but eminently feasible. They even discussed such basic questions as what kind of meat the colonists will eat (the conferees were told that rabbits, chickens and pigs would be easier to raise in space than cattle) and what types of legal and social structures might be set up in their extraterrestrial...
...subsequent drop in demand should have forced a sharper slowdown in the rate of price increases than has, in fact, occurred. Businessmen, they suspect, are refusing to cut prices partly because they want to keep profit margins up, partly because they do not think that price cuts expand sales in a modern economy-even though they are supposed to by all traditional free-market precepts. Says Okun: "The free market is on trial...