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...mind of the Wasp bears more resemblance to the laser than the mind of any other ethnic group," said Mailer. "To wit, he can project himself 'extraordinary distances through a narrow path. He's disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination. He's profoundly nihilistic. And this nihilism found its perfect expression in the odyssey to the moon-because we went there without knowing why we went...
...Walter Syndrome, there is little to say about the book beyond the fact that the ploy is notably audacious and that it works. The time is the late Depression era. The place, of all places, is the classified-ad department of a New York daily, and the prime instrument for working evil is the telephone. Neely's notion of atmosphere is to cram his pages with nostalgic nouns from the '30s-the Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style murders have been luridly updated to include quite nasty details...
Because of its progressive rates, the federal income tax is a marvelously efficient collection instrument. According to former Presidential Counsellor Daniel P. Moynihan, "the basic equation of American political economy is that for each 1% increase in the gross national product, the income of the Federal Government increases 1.5%." By contrast, the income from property and sales taxes, the traditional backbone of state and local finance, reacts more sluggishly to economic growth. Furthermore, these taxes are regressive: their burden falls most heavily on lower-income groups...
...Mission Control will profit from the $15 million safety overhaul. If any of Apollo 14's critical systems go awry, as did the defective oxygen tank in Apollo 13, loud beeping alarms will sound on the monitoring consoles in Houston as well as on the spacecraft's instrument panel...
Pusey commended the Committee of Rights and Responsibilities-attacked throughout the year by students as an instrument of political repression-as having "functioned courageously, discerningly, and effectively...