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...furniture, plus a humming array of several hundred thousand dollars worth of electronic equipment, including a radio-telephone hookup to the U.S. mainland and telephone scramblers to prevent his phone conversations from being bugged. The roof bristles with antennas. At night all eleven of Hughes' balconies are awash with harsh floodlights. Closed-circuit TV cameras lean out from the building's walls, scanning for intruders. Uniformed guards watch the elevators. Recently the hotel applied fresh paint to all of its fire doors on the emergency stairwell-except on the ninth floor; apparently workmen were not allowed there...
...Harsh, acrimonious, sometimes arrogant," complained its afternoon counterpart, the News Leader...
Students are responding to the harsh new world of job scarcity in several ways. Most placement officers predict that a larger proportion of bachelor's degree recipients this June will elect to go on to graduate school. The recruiting drought has also produced a new institution in post-graduation planning: the breather year, during which graduates take an extended break before finding a job or continuing their education. Some temporary dropouts travel abroad, others take undemanding jobs as cab drivers, ski patrollers or bartenders to help unwind from the pressures of college life. At Dartmouth, 18% of graduating seniors...
...Disney must have felt exiled from this world when his father suffered financial reverses and the Disney family had to seek its fortune in the city, and in the twentieth century. One can see the influence of Disney's lost boyhood in the myths recreated for children, and the harsh reality of the city in the commercial nature of the set up. It was extremely important to Disney that the public buy the dreams he was selling if they were to be truly successful. Finally, Disney settled into comfortable maturity, ever maintaining his right wing politics, so much so that...
...When President Nixon presents his election-year budget this month, it will be relatively bare of those shiny new social programs that stir voter enthusiasm. In that lack lies a harsh truth: despite prospects for a strong, sustained economic recovery, ever-rising federal expenditures and a long series of tax cuts have left the Government strapped for ready cash. As a result, the Administration faces some tough choices. It must either raise taxes, cut current expenditures, or go slow in meeting a growing plethora of public needs, including benefits for Viet Nam veterans, pollution control, mass transit, prison reform...