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...regulations and the regulations make it impossible to check up on people." The truth is the other way around: Washington for years has been pressing the states and localities to eliminate ineligibles. Reagan just cannot see that, because one of his abiding convictions is that Washington is the fount of most of what is wrong with the country. Remove the federal involvement, he thinks, and matters are bound to get better. In this area his conviction seems to have reached the point of compulsion...
Philosophically, Ike was a pragmatist. "The path to America's future," he declared in 1949, "lies down the middle of the road." He liked to be called a "responsible progressive." Reagan talks a much harder ideological line; he is the fount of Reaganism, after all. But, in Sacramento, Reagan demonstrated a flexibility about raising taxes and welfare payments that wen against his own strict dogmas...
...White House. Furthermore, a plethora of opportunities exist in the public sector. Banking, business, and publication jobs help round out the resume. But you can extirpate buried treasures, excavate unusual occupations, spend the idle ideas of summer idyllically, bask in the warm reassurance that yes, you have found the fount of summer happiness...
...What a fount of facts! The latest news as well as stories filed in the New York Times information bank. Energy-saving suggestions and automotive news, theater directories and wine guides, horoscopes and biorhythms. For the academic, language tutorials and physics lessons. Recipes for the culinary minded, general ledgers and inventories for businessmen, backgammon and Monopoly for children. Not to mention information on income tax deductions and mortgage payments. Indeed one can even order airline tickets through the service...
Though in awe of his heroes, Judson is not blind to their egomanias and foibles. Watson is "markedly bright and never accustomed to hide the fact." Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough...