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...Politburo. It reveals Russia's greatest writer as an uncomfortable and uncompromising prophet, a utopian conservative who fears for the future of his beloved country as much as he hates what the Soviet system has done to its past. English-language publication rights have been given to Index, a London-based magazine devoted to one of Solzhenitsyn's favorite causes, the abolition of censorship. Excerpts...
...recent months the Administration has dropped controls on industry after industry, until only 28% of the items in the consumer price index and 38% of wage and salary earners were still covered by the Economic Stabilization Act. Last week's decision means that workers in most industries would be able to hold onto any wage increase that they can wring out of an employer without being overruled by the Cost of Living Council. Controls will continue on two industries: petroleum, where prices have been soaring because of the energy crisis; and health care, where costs will encounter considerable upward...
Perhaps as many as 80 per cent of the present student body would not be attending Harvard today if the admissions committee had to chose those applicants with the highest grade and test score index (which, in fact, is the reason Marco DeFunis claims he should have been admitted to the University of Washington Law School...
...Uncle Sam hat and costume and the forcefully extended index finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...
...full extent of last year's food-price ravages, which caused widespread consumer protests and a celebrated "meat boycott," was made official last week in the Labor Department's annual report on inflation. The cost of living index in 1973 zoomed upward by 8.8%, the biggest annual advance since 1947. Though fuel oil and coal costs rose a stunning 45%, giving a late but powerful lift to living costs, the main villain throughout last year was food prices, which rose 20%. Meat, poultry and fish climbed by an average of 26%, and bakery products and cereals...