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Hungry Cynics. If nothing else, the California hearings demonstrated that decades of deprivation have spawned a nation of hungry cynics. Last week President Nixon took note of the paradox of having 11.5 million people verging on starvation in what is glibly known as an affluent society. It was a marked turnabout for the President, who only days before was reportedly anxious to postpone any organized assault on hunger for at least a year. "That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable," said Nixon. "The moment is at hand...
...Emery tells them how they can get GM. There are ten to fifteen million sitting targets--every GM car, truck, and bus extant. Don't confuse the issue by hitting at Ford or Chrysler, you can dictate terms to them after GM is shut down. Don't hurt the people in the cars. Your fight is against machines, not men. Smash windshields, use beer can openers to dig long scratches into the sides of the monsters. Get jobs at gas stations, in garages--dump sand, valve grinding compound, detergent into the crankcases and gas tanks...
...Nixon administration is asking for $900 million this year for development of two of the twelve proposed ABM sites. ABM critics, complain, however, that the total cost of the system would be about $13 billion...
...Congress is in direct control of funds that go to universities this way. Debates on education bills are usually lengthy and appropriations extend over three or four years. The Office of Education administers programs under these general education bills. In 1968, the agency was authorized to distribute $4714 million under the extended 1963 Facilities Act, $397 million under NDEA, and $427 million under the 1965 Higher Education Act extended...
...reply to your query, I believe we have the relocation problem squarely under control. For a mere several million (or so my cousin Willy the real estate man assures me) Harvard can purchase some of the choicest acreage available in North Dakota. The plan, as we conceive it, is to construct a new community closely modelled on Cambridge--to be called "Pusey Bluffs." The residents in question will be flown all-expenses-paid, non-stop-direct to Bismarck, with fortnightly bus connections to Yellowstocking, and bimonthly sand-buggy service to Pusey Bluffs...