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...Dartmouth has not done as well as we would like in attracting black faculty, which is one of the reasons we want to expand this program," David T. Lindgren, chairman of the Committee on Instruction, which reviews all Dartmouth programs, said Wednesday. The entire faculty will vote on the recommendations in April, he added...
Citing the small size of Dartmouth College as a limiting factor, Lindgren added that there are no plans to make the revised program a full department and allow students to choose Black Studies as their only major...
Doubts About Ford. Many of Ford's supporters on the panel have doubts about him. One out of five of them questions whether he has leadership ability, and one out of ten questions whether he is smart enough for the job. Said Francis Lindgren, a white-collar worker from Wayland, Mich.: "I don't look at Ford as being a truly great leader. When he gives a speech, it sounds like it came out of a can." Added Bill Mills, a plant manager from Denison, Texas: "I don't think he is as smart as other Presidents...
...industrial worker who earns $11,250, for instance, must give the taxman $4,125. Levies on the half-million self-employed Swedes-professionals, farmers, intellectuals and small businessmen-are even more onerous. The maximum tax rate is supposed to be 85%, but in one recent, celebrated case involving Astrid Lindgren, a writer of children's books, the taxman threatened to take 102% of her royalty earnings...
Back to Barter. The Lindgren case resulted from a quirk in the law (which will be changed), but it dramatized the near confiscatory nature of Sweden's tax structure, which inhibits individual initiative. Sven Stolpe, 70, one of Sweden's most distinguished writers, announced last month that he had burned the manuscripts for a new five-volume series of novels. His angry explanation: "Practically everything I earn is taxed around 100%. It is all my life's work that is being stolen." Silversmith Rey Urban, 46, moans that while his products are in demand everywhere...