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Machine Run Amuck. As Nixon sees it, the quintet has in common a distaste for expanding federal power and a desire to return decision making whenever possible to lower levels of government and to the private sector. Washington should provide incentives and guidance toward problem solving, but not domination. "That traditionally Republican thinking," he says, "is the wellspring of the new alignment." It is also traditional Nixon thinking-the assertion of individuality against the weight of centralized authority...
...offer some form of effective participation in the management of the plant, perhaps through strengthened worker-proprietor councils. For the students, he almost certainly will offer a far greater voice in university affairs, plus such reforms as a full-scale modernization of the curriculums; easier entry for children of lower middle-class and working-class parents (presently only about 10% of the university population); an exam system that seems less designed to eliminate large numbers of students. For France's farmers, he will most likely propose some type of commodity support?even though the Common Market agreements frown on such...
...Johnson Administration plans to ask Congress next week for a constitutional amendment that would lower the voting...
...curious to me that I can find support for Bobby Kennedy from the poor in Appalachia, where Harry Cardill called him the greatest man since Franklin D. Roosevelt; I can find support for him in lower-middle-class, and particularly so-called backlash regions, in Boston. But again--we have McCarthy. I don't think this is just an idle, irrelevant distinction. It ties in with the estrangement I spoke of between the white upper-middle-class intellectual liberal, and even radical, community, and the very people whose lives they want changed, but changed from the distance of their analysis...
...Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, attempts to point up the paradox of black power today. The Journal, to its credit, has beaten Encounter to the news stands with Kilson's views on the subject. Kilson calls black power a "confidence trick" played at the expense of the Negro lower classes. He claims it "seeks a leverage on power in face of abject powerlessness." But Kilson's article is not a mere sideswipe. Behind the article is an as yet unexplored theory which holds that among the ghetto's natural entrepreneurs--the numbers runners, small money-lenders, pool room owners...