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That was precisely the kind of grousing that Candidate Nixon wanted the nation to hear during the campaign, and he sometimes quoted Moynihan. When it was time for the President-elect to deliver something more effective, he decided to offer Moynihan the chairmanship of the new, Cabinet-level Council on Urban Affairs...
...yellow submarine," Sealab 3, was lowered 610 ft. to the floor of the continental shelf. Then instruments indicated a helium leak in the still-unoccupied deep-sea habitat, and Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon, 33, and two companions were sent below to make repairs. They descended to the 610-ft. level in a pressurized personnel transfer capsule (PTC) and were opening a hatch to enter Sealab when Navy officers watching a TV monitor on the surface saw Cannon begin to thrash about. "I saw his body jackknifing, making a rapid motion," says Captain George Bond, Sealab's chief medical officer...
Changing economics of urban life have doomed these passive protesters. In a time of full employment and of increased welfare benefits at every government level, it is no longer so necessary for psychological dropouts to take up the Skid Row life. "Skid Rowers don't last long," says Chicago's VanderKooi. "The community has to recruit to survive. Yet only the West Coast Skids seem to be attracting any younger men-drawn, in part, by the area's hospitable climate and by the availability of harvesttime jobs." The median age of Bowery residents today...
Other American players, accustomed to the slick, fast-breaking style of play in the U.S., return home out of frustration; while improving, European basketball at best is on a level with junior-college ball in the U.S. Playing conditions, like the cramped court on the third floor of the Abbey of Mercy church in Venice, are often less than ideal. Refereeing, which one U.S. player says favors the home team by a good 25 points, is woefully bad. And the European players, to whom teamwork is a job performed by oxen, would just as soon uncork an impossibly long...
...Washington's battle against price rises intensified, Wall Street last week finally seemed to get the message. After meandering since January, the stock market suffered its worst weekly loss in 21 years. The Dow-Jones industrial average declined by 35 points, to 917-the lowest level since last September. On the New York Stock Exchange, declines outnumbered advances by 3 to 1. On the American Exchange, prices dropped by an average of 5%. The slide continued until the four-day trading week, abbreviated for Washington's Birthday, ended mercifully on Thursday...