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After nine months of dawdling and a misguided effort to put two outright foes of legal services on the board, President Ford finally named eleven directors who passed muster in the Senate, and last week they held their first meeting. Chaired by Cornell Law School Dean Roger Cramton, the group ranges from conservative to moderate liberal -though there are no women or representatives from poverty groups. Still, one legal-services activist pronounced himself "pleasantly surprised" after meeting the members. Said Melville Miller, director of Middlesex County Legal Services in New Jersey: "They seemed interested, open-minded and genuinely committed...
...were accepted with the most cursory of investigations, often after nothing more than a telephone interview. The result: a number of "breakdowns," in which sponsors have not fulfilled their commitment to provide for the refugees until they can fend for themselves. There have been a few sordid instances of outright exploitation or abuse-in Florida, one woman was assaulted by her male sponsor. In most breakdowns, however, the sponsors simply lack resources to support the refugees...
...that all there is to it? Remember all that fiddle about how rock is the great new art form of the era, about how it should be a potent force for political and social comment, if not outright change? Does it now turn out that its most significant current figure is just doing what Tin Pan Alley has always done-wedding simple musical ideas to quite ordinary lyrical notions about love, loss and longing? And, in the great tradition of the music business, avoiding any things that might be regarded as "difficult" or "controversial"? The answer...
...fell an unusual 6% from early 1974 through the first quarter of 1975. Now, at long last, his purchasing power is rising, because inflation, interest rates and taxes have all come down. Of the economy's turnaround, Jallow says, "The tax rebate was the trigger." Between rebates and outright tax reductions, the Government will put more than $18 billion into the consumers' pockets from May through December. Last week Ford said that he might ask for a continuation of those tax cuts into next year if the recovery does not proceed smartly. Even if it does, Congress...
...dictatorship last week and then barely retreated-but the country lost more freedoms. A crisis had erupted over the issue of whether the country would be able to make its fragile coalition government work or would dispense with political parties altogether and install either a military government or an outright proletarian dictatorship run by workers' commissions and neighborhood committees. President Francisco da Costa Gomes, fresh from a bridge-building visit to Rumania, went into extraordinary, round-the-clock sessions with the 29-member Revolutionary Council, the government's highest authority. Said a Western diplomat in Lisbon: "This...