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...payments and new orders that fast. Much of the spending that Nixon had hoped for this year will be delayed until fiscal 1973, which begins in July. As a result, the fiscal 1973 deficit is likely to be higher than Nixon's originally projected $25.5 billion. Economist Maurice Mann, formerly Nixon's assistant budget chief, predicts that 1973's deficit will "significantly exceed $30 billion." That larger deficit should help the economy accelerate after midyear, but perhaps too much so, heightening the danger of renewed inflation...
Once upon a time American schools served, in Horace Mann's words, as "the great equalizer of the conditions of men." They took in the ragged, ill-fed sons and daughters of European immigrants, educated and Americanized them and turned them out productive members of the middle class...
...life is the enemy of art, then death must be its comrade. In the last acts Ibsen moves his characters to a health resort in the mountains--a look forward to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain where on a peak high above the "real" world, Rubek and Irene are swept away in the mist and snow of a sudden storm. From below, in the bourgeois flatland, resounds the simple voice of Maja in a childish freedom song which is both mocking...
Lawrence D. Mann '54, professor of City Planning and chairman of the Department, said yesterday that the faculty almost unanimously opposed such a move, because they feared "slanting" and that "some people's views would be caricatured...
That was about the extent of Chaplin's Red menace. It was enough. By 1952 the sexual scandals had proliferated; he had been fingerprinted and tried for violation of the Mann Act (innocent) and in a paternity suit (guilty). More, the cold war had frozen the country's sense of humor. Congressman John Rankin of Mississippi fulminated against some socially conscious paintings. "I am sure," he said, "that some of them got into the home of Charles Chaplin, the perverted subject of Great Britain who has become notorious for his forcible seduction of white girls." Rankin was correct...