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...conditions, something hitherto left largely to state regulation (except for coal mines). The law aims to reduce the shocking annual toll of on-the-job accidents: 14,500 workers killed and 2,200,000 injured. As organized labor wanted, the act gives the Secretary of Labor the power to fix safety standards for all factories, farms and construction projects involved in interstate commerce. As businessmen urged, the act leaves enforcement to a three-member commission to be named by the President...
...signs of human decay are everywhere in the welfare hotels of New York; they contaminate the very air. At the Hamilton Hotel on Manhattan's West Side, junkies, prostitutes and gaunt young toughs haunt the vomit-stained hallways in search of a fix or their next mugging victim. Though classified as "temporary" by the Department...
...long ago as May 14, 1969, President Nixon refused to fix an advance date for the total withdrawal of Amer-can forces, saying it would "completely destroy" the prospects of a settlement at the Paris talks...
...fiscal alternatives in the most elegant committee prose since the Wilson Report, but refuses to suggest solutions. The progress of the document has been slow. Its authors, Professors Francis M. Bator and Graham T. Allison, even now insist that they have only drafted a preliminary paper-"to fix an agenda" for debating possible guidelines for portfolio and budget analysis in the dark fiscal days ahead. The Austin Committee on Corporate Enterprise, appointed by President Pusey last April during the GM proxy fight, has done that much less work. But Harvard urgently demands a full and immediate discussion of these topics...
There are some people who may be concerned about the real issues- I assume McGovern or Goodell or Hatfield. But as far as I can see the major response seems to be that it was a blunder and we ought to fix it up as best as possible and that's the whole issue...