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Lincoln Caplan '73, a South House tutor living at 29 Garden St., said the structure of Canaday Hall is "conducive to insular living" compared to the friendly atmosphere of 29 Garden...
...boards of imaginative engineers for nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from Sir Garnet Wolseley who, as adjutant general of the British army, warned in 1882 that the tunnel "would be a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Last week the British House of Commons, reviewing the issue for the 36th time...
Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung put it down to geography. "Mountains tend to restrict the horizons of the mind," he once told TIME'S Robert Kroon. Others chalk it up to the insular effects of a longtime policy of political neutrality. Still others say it is simply a matter of overexposure to throngs of Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and businessmen pouring into the country in search of jobs and tax breaks...
...Rules, would be left largely alone. But Ways and Means would be stripped of authority over trade legislation, general revenue sharing, major areas of unemployment compensation, manpower and health care (still leaving it in charge of, among other things, taxation, Social Security, Medicare financing and welfare). The Interior and Insular Affairs Committee would be reconstituted into the Committee on Energy and Environment, absorbing jurisdiction in these areas from several other committees and giving up control of Indian affairs, grazing lands and U.S. overseas territories...
NOBODY EXPECTED any substantive economic reforms to emerge from the Ford summit, and it is now clear that none will. It is just as clear that Ford will be as insular with respect to his economic policy as was Nixon--despite the gaudy show he and his experts put on in the Washington Hilton ballroom...