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...white elephants go, it is like Xanadu revisited. Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post mansion in Palm Beach, lies dormant, its 115 rooms shuttered, its fountains dry, its citrus grove, four greenhouses and nine-hole golf course seedy and overgrown. When the cereal heiress died in 1973, she willed the 17-acre oceanfront estate-built in 1927 at a cost of $8 million-to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and foreign dignitaries. Alas, her posthumous hospitality had virtually no takers. Congress was reluctant to maintain Mar-a-Lago (Spanish for Sea-to-Lake) and equally...
...little more space to spread his blueprints while McCue and company rethink the whole approach to urban design. The next dean expects a reshuffling of faculty members and courses and the addition of several new instructors. He adds that other universities may follow Harvard's example in pruning overgrown public policy projects...
...presenting what must have been an exhaustive process of disengagement as a cinch to untangle. His rapid-fire style is possible because Wolff refuses to become mired in the devastations of youth. The straightforward manner could only be assumed by someone who has weeded an overgrown and tangled history and arrived at a resolution with which he can comfortably live...
Even if you overlook the fact that the proposal is just so much political baggage, however, the content of the legislation is grounds enough for dismissal. It is ironic that the Washington outsider whose 1976 campaign platform promised to pare down the overgrown federal blob has thrown his support behind a proposal that will further crowd the Washington community and further extend a tradition of Washington mismanagement. A separate cabinet-level Department of Education, is the easy way out. For more than 30 years, education has been the orphan child of the Washington bureacracy--drifting from the Interior Department...
Meantime, the public sector in the past three decades has consumed more and more of the nation's gross national product (32.5% in 1978). An exorbitantly overgrown system of regulation has turned prudent Government watchfulness over private industry into virtually perpetual interference, and thereby chilled enthusiasm for investment. Moreover, the business of business, unglamorous and vaguely unpopular in the U.S. for at least several generations, is portrayed as all-purpose villain at the very moment when it should be stimulated to its greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance...