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...that theme: "We are asking for support for the idea of such a program not on economic grounds, and not even on humanitarian grounds primarily, but on the grounds of attempting to build peace in Indochina and therefore to contribute to peace in the world." In an appearance b fore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State William Rogers pursued the same cautious, pragmatic line suggesting a kind of moral neutrality regarding the war's devastations, looking forward rather than stirring again any possible questions of international guilt and innocence. Said Rogers: "There may be some longing among...
...regular season games. This year, just before preseason work outs were scheduled to begin, the team owners struck back by refusing to open the training camps. No ballplaying, said the moneymen - not until the current round of collective bargaining is completed. If a solution is not reached be fore March 1, the official starting day of spring training, it would be the first time that baseball's annual spring rit ual has been delayed since the major-leaguers began going south 87 years...
Thus, even for those economists with a strong committment to a more equal and humane world order, the basic assumptions of the conventional economics proved to be a powerful drawback to understanding the new problems brought to the fore by the social movements of the 1960s. Thus, the assumption that human nature, as expressed in individual preferences or consciousness, can be treated as independent of the structure of economic activity, is an unfortunate starting point for an economic analysis of worker alienation, sexism or racism. A discipline whose main analytical tool is the concept of equilibrium and whose conceptual apparatus...
After winning a dizzyingly publicized "talent hunt" for just the right Daisy in David Merrick's yet-to-be-made film version of The Great Gatsby, Mia Farrow does not intend to rest on her laurels-or her pretty face. Be fore she starts filming, Mia, who is getting $200,000 for Gatsby, is spending the time as Irina in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with London's Company Theater. Her take: $60 a week...
...wished to construct a universe of plea sure and relaxation - like Matisse's "armchair for tired businessmen," but more so - and in this he succeeded. He was the natural heir of the finest decorators of the 18th century, Fragonard and Boucher. "He who has not lived be fore the Revolution," said Metternich, "cannot know the sweetness of life," and Renoir's spiritual home was built before 1789. Almost from the start of his career, Renoir's technique and sense of construction were superb: witness the sober, Venetian expansiveness of his great tribute to Corot, Pont-des-Arts...