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THAT reform, not money, is the keystone of Richard Nixon's domestic policy was demonstrated again last week with the President's first message to Congress on federal education policy. Rejected outright was the New Deal-Great Society doctrine that the best answer is the one that carries the biggest dollar sign. Nixon proposed no new comprehensive spending plans, no additional substantive programs. Instead, he declared that the U.S. must learn how to teach; Americans must conduct a "searching re-examination of our entire approach to learning...
...best-laid plans of Faculty committees to bring students into the Faculty bureaucracy are almost in ruins, because of student noncooperation. Right now it appears the permanent Committee on Rights and Responsibilities has been aborted by outright student antagonism, while the other three proposed student-Faculty committees are sinking in the marshmallow fudge of indifference...
...against them. The last state to censor motion pictures in advance of distribution, Maryland pays the members of its Board of Motion Picture Censors between $4,000 and $4,500 a year each. In fiscal 1969, the trio previewed 687 movies, censored objectionable portions from 14, and rejected 59 outright. Half of those rejected were 8-mm. porno productions made on a shoestring, which is more than most of the performers wore. None of the disapproved films was produced by members of the Motion Picture Association of America, which voluntarily rate their movies for their suitability for different audiences...
...patrolmen in the United States should take this as an outright challenge and threat to not only themselves but the very basic idea of freedom in America," MacEachern said...
...Outright deception is rare. Many commercials retreat into a world of pure fantasy, in which humor and Madison Avenue mythology explore hard-sell claims to product superiority. The agencies have created an unearthly band of mnemonic miracle-makers-a White Knight, a Green Phantom, Josephine the lady plumber, Mr. Clean the bacteriophobic eunuch, and the Man from Glad, who is gussied up in platinum hairdo and white trench coat. In one ad, a failing used-car salesman takes a dollop of Listerine mouthwash, and customers start buying without waiting for the sales pitch. In another commercial, a bespectacled, frumpish...