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...assistance, which South Viet Nam, with U.S. approval, answered in part by shipping in some 5,000 captured, Soviet-designed AK-47 rifles. The chances of equipping and training Cambodia's largely volunteer army in time for it to beat off a coordinated Communist attack, however, were next to nil. Meanwhile the South Vietnamese, in a number of exploratory probes, had proved that the Communists were vulnerable to attack on their sanctuaries from the west...
...stage at the Loeb Ex complicates any attempt to "de-intellectualize" The Tempest. The possibilities for elaborate staging or expensive costuming which would identify the scene of the action or the characters themselves are almost nil. Shakespeare, as we're used to him, seems strangely out of place in such barren surroudings...
...nuances of Capitol Hill procedures escape him. The necessity of maintaining the best possible relations with all factions is foreign to his nature. Because of his own distaste for liberals of both parties and because his ranking deputies are conservative, his communications with the Republican liberal wing are practically nil...
...would unfreeze $1.5 billion of federal, state and local construction money that he had effectively held up last fall as an anti-inflation move. Congressmen greeted the announcement as political manna. "The problems of inflation have been defeated," said House Republican Leader Gerald Ford. "The danger of recession is nil." His comment was deflated the next day by Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who stated soberly that "of course there is danger" of both recession and inflation...
...says Ford Foundation Official Mario Fantini. "The Parkway Program utterly rejects that notion; it breaks down the dichotomy between living and learning." Furthermore, he points out, Parkway is marvelously economical. A school for 500 pupils costs some $1,000,000 to build. Parkway's capital costs were practically nil. The most impressive praise of all is that Parkway already has at least one imitator. Chicago last month began its own peripatetic school. Kansas City, San Francisco, Hartford and Washington may follow suit...