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These, and other of the committee's recommendations, particularly those concerning the Cambridge housing situation, are not entirely new. They have been discussed in the Administration previously; some had become informal policy, while others had vanished in the bureaucratic maze. The committee's stamp of approval may now have given some an extra boost...
...economy in 1968 had a real growth of 12%, the highest of any developed nation. Then the syndicate will sell its shares to the public, mainly in Europe, but not in the U.S. or Canada. In those countries, the partners figure, it would not be worth struggling through a maze of taxes, notably the U.S.'s interest-equalization tax, which obliges Americans to pay an 18¾ premium for foreign securities...
Skeptical of the maze of domestic programs created by the Great Society, the President-elect hopes to shift the emphasis from federal action to private initiative in antipoverty efforts and slum rehabilitation. Even Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who as Assistant Secretary of Labor helped create the anti-poverty program and who will serve Nixon as a White House assistant specializing in urban problems, is highly critical of the way the present setup works. In a book to be published this winter, Moynihan calls the current Administration's approach "sloppy" and misguided (see box, page...
...fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part? Or is he God? Although Urfe comes to fear for his mind, he cannot leave the island. "It's like being halfway through a book," he says, driven to follow the maze to its end regardless of twists and turns...
John A. Volpe sticks out like a sore thumb even in a group as mediocre as Richard Nixon's cabinet. Secretary of Transportation Volpe will, no doubt, build roads, but this nation--particularly its cities--needs more than another maze of express-ways to solve its transportation problems...