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...year) except in emergencies. He said he would soon propose ways to save another $300 million. He suggested that any such saving be added to the surplus in state revenues, expected to amount to $5.3 billion by the end of the fiscal year, and applied to help fill the property-tax void. He proposed that $4 billion be promptly allocated to local districts and $1 billion be kept in a reserve loan fund for emergencies...
...worse problem is finding qualified people to fill DOE posts at the high level of Assistant Secretary. Now three such positions remain vacant, and few people seem willing to undergo the months of congressional scrutiny and cross-examination that have become standard for anybody willing to take a job in a policymaking area as contentious as energy. Example: Lynn Coleman, once a partner in John Connally's Houston law firm, which has oil industry clients, waited eight months until the suspicious, supercautious Senate finally approved his nomination as DOE general counsel. Schlesinger has not yet submitted the names...
Hillsdale College in southern Michigan started admitting blacks and women before the Civil War and has no record of discrimination. It accepts no direct federal aid. Nevertheless, HEW is threatening to cut off federal loans and other assistance to some of the school's students because it will not fill out forms on the status of women at the college. HEW claims to be basing its action on a Justice Department ruling, and the case is now being heard by an administrative judge in Washington. For Hillsdale, resistance is a matter of principle. It has embarked on a fund-raising...
...seven universities; he chose Princeton. Says he: "Ninety-five percent of my public school friends are on drugs and unemployed. Some were more intelligent than I am." Fully 85% of the graduates go on to college. All students must take college boards, apply to at least three colleges, fill out financial-aid forms and write papers on their career goals?besides learning Adams' law: "If you don't internalize discipline in high school, you're going to flunk out of college in the first two weeks...
...weather, explore the atmosphere, photograph the earth, tow boats, advertise corsets, drop bombs and loft men and women into the wind. In the past decade the kite, the honorable ancestor of all aircraft, has colored American skies in vast numbers, dazzling hues, and sufficient shapes, sizes and forms to fill catalogs of bliss...