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...welfare. Shultz suggested a middle course of providing "work incentives" that would enable families to keep a major part of their wages without losing their rights to welfare funds. To protests that it would cost too much, he replied, "$1 billion isn't anything if it will make the program work." Nixon agreed...
Provided that Congress approves and allocates enough money. Nixon's proposals will make some major advances toward what he called "a just marketplace." The main items, many of which Nader has been campaigning for: > Consumers for the first time will be permitted to join together in "class actions" in federal court and share the legal expenses of suing manufacturers and merchants guilty of deception. Convicted manufacturers will have to bear all legal costs and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon's proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits...
...victories. The House passed a mine-safety bill setting limits on coal dust in mines for the first time. A congressional committee began hearings on railroad accidents, which Nader claims are responsible for 1,800 deaths a year. And the Department of Transportation issued a policy statement promising to make public soon the names of auto brands that fail to meet Federal safety standards. Next, Nader plans to petition the Federal Aviation Agency to ban smoking on planes for safety's sake...
Ragnar Frisch, who is widely regarded as the father of the modern planned economies of Scandinavia, believes that computers will soon help make planning popular in all countries. But he admits that models are far harder to build for rich, complex countries than for simpler economies. "Frisch and I started this work in the 1930s, in the days of the economic depression," says Jan Tinbergen. "We wanted to draw a plan to fight depression causes and keep unemployment under control." In recent years, Tinbergen has devoted all of his time to the problems of underdeveloped countries, where econometrics seems well...
...Western kid, Carl Dixon (Michael Douglas), goes AWOL from an Eastern college. He returns to the family ranch-a spread about the size of Rhode Island-to make an important announcement: he has enlisted in the Army to see if he can love the enemy up close as he does from afar. But nobody listens. Dad and Mom (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright) are too busy bickering. His crippled brother is off tomcatting around town, wishing he were fit enough to fight...