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...array of programs that sometimes neglect the essential to serve up what is merely desirable. In Britain and France, rent subsidies have done little to alleviate chronic housing shortages and overcrowding. In The Netherlands, disability plans have been abused by unemployed workers making false claims to receive higher benefits. Generous sick-leave payments in Sweden are blamed for a debilitating rise in worker absenteeism. One official West German pamphlet giving citizens a "simplified" version of their social rights, for example, runs to 300 pages...
Novelist John Marquand called him the third best editor he had ever known, after George Horace Lorimer and Maxwell Perkins. William Faulkner, Rebecca West, Willa Cather and other major writers found him a staunch and generous companion. Marc Connelly and William Saroyan phoned him when they needed money. One of the few dissenters was Evelyn Waugh, who called him, with characteristic bile, "an emaciated Jew lately promoted within the Hearst organization from editing a weekly paper devoted to commercial chemistry...
...contends that overt racism is growing throughout the nation, citing the increasingly visible Ku Klux Klan as one example of this trend. Lewis attributes recent expressions of racism to hard economic times: "We feel powerless in the world, people are not as content, and it is easier to be generous when things are going well...
...Politburo members, only Leonid Brezhnev was moved to acknowledge "cordial gratitude" to Kosygin. Even that faint praise came after international surprise over Kosygin's unceremonious exit from power. Last week news of Kosygin's death of a heart attack in the Kremlin hospital was treated in more generous fashion. A day and a half after the event, the Soviet government and Communist Party made the announcement "with deep sorrow...
...view that almost everything is uncontrollable, but I do not believe that." Among the areas where Feldstein said spending cuts could bring about substantial savings at minimal political cost: $3 billion in federal subsidies to airports, $7 billion in revenue sharing to states, and $5.5 billion in excessively generous payments for disabled workers, who would not have qualified for federal support under standards that prevailed as recently...