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...matter what. He could give up every tape and hand over the key to the Oval Office and that's not going to be enough." University of Minnesota President Malcolm Moos, an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, has an even gloomier view. "He can't pull out of it, with the possible exception of contrived military crises...
...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, he found the bureaucracy too much to manage. He joined the White House staff mainly to rest up until he could plunge into politics again as a candidate for the Senate or for Governor of California. Donald Rumsfeld, 40, also leaves under gloomier circumstances than those under which he arrived. Considered to be a young man on the make under Nixon, he has quit as director of the Cost of Living Council to become Ambassador to NATO, a job usually regarded as a steppingstone to retirement. One reason for his falling out with...
...municipal governments (see THE NATION). Cities have reached the limit of their taxing powers, they insist, and the Federal Government must rush to their rescue. Touring New York City last week to impress on the public the urgency of their plight, the mayors of eleven cities sounded even gloomier than usual. Said Boston's Kevin White: "Look, we raise 70% of our money with the property tax, but half our property is untaxable and 20% of our people are on welfare. Could you run a business that...
...Once you understand the problem," says Barry Commoner in one of his gloomier moments, "you find that it's worse than you ever expected." Yet even LaMont Cole, a charter member of the doomsday school of ecologists, is not entirely discouraged: "There has been so much progress in the past five years that if I'm not careful I'm liable to become a little optimistic...
...Brazil is the country of the future," say Rio wits, "and always will be." Sadly enough, the prospect for Brazil and most other underdeveloped nations of the Third World during the '70s could scarcely be gloomier. The prognosis is for a decade of anarchy and political instability, of coups and countercoups, and of widespread suffering. Historian Arnold Toynbee predicts that "the present worldwide discontent and unrest will become more acute, and will express itself in worse and worse outbreaks of violence. In fact, I expect to see local civil wars take the place of a third international...