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...election had been "to send a boy to camp." Then, last week, the rumors rumbling down the mountainside turned into a sudden avalanche of appointments for Nixon's second term. All were in keeping with the President's notion that the best way to run an overgrown bureaucracy is to staff it with his own men-proven, competent, completely loyal. The careers of the four key appointees are described on following pages...
...intent was to satirize, and the target was anything that had become overgrown with acceptance or nostalgia. In 1967, he freshened his slant with Snow White, a novel whose transformed fairy-tale heroine swept away the Disney dust by writing dirty poems and commingling in the shower with the Seven Dwarfs, who otherwise labored over large vats, manufacturing Chinese baby food...
...every child to choose the kind of schooling that suited his taste -or even none at all. He also argued in favor of dismantling the larger universities and making them into federations of small colleges with a student body of about 450 and a faculty of 50. Schools and overgrown universities, however, were only part of the problem. In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, he wrote: "People have a right to be crazy, stupid or arrogant. It is our specialty as human beings. Our mistake is to arm anybody with collective power. Anarchy...
This month an estimated 500,000 tourists and sport lovers will descend upon Munich for the 20th Olympic Games. What they will find, reports TIME Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum, is an overgrown village that likes to think of itself as Germany's secret capital, a city of museums (25) and music (three symphony orchestras, a 48-week opera season), with memories of Richard Strauss and Wagner, Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II-and Adolf Hitler. Vignettes from Birnbaum's recent visit there...
...Stockholm conference has approved a global system for the monitoring of pollution. Next month, as a forerunner of such a system, the U.S. plans to launch an experimental satellite, known as ERTS (for Earth Resources Technology Satellite). A stubby, 1,965-lb. package that resembles an overgrown moth, the satellite will be equipped with three television cameras, a multi-wave-length sensor and a data collection system that can relay environmental information from as many as 1,000 automatic monitoring stations on earth. If the test is successful, ERTS-type orbiters could be used to sound an alarm whenever there...