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Certainly, American attitudes toward death are complex, and the manner of dying is just a partial reason for these attitudes. Miss Mitford has chosen to disregard the problem, to deny the perceptiveness of the undertakers while she decries their sales pitch. Some readers may find her own singleminded emphasis on money just as distasteful as the embalming practices she describes. But because her appeal is essentially emotional--and Americans are always emotional about money--her book will have impact, and produce results...
...speechmaking in New England, the President had sandwiched in a visit to his father's Cape Cod home, where he cruised near Hyannis Harbor with Joe and Cousin Ann Gargan aboard Joe's 52-ft. yacht Marlin. Later old Joe, who rails at the handicaps of the partial paralysis and loss of speech he still suffers as a result of his stroke nearly two years ago, was off to Chicago. There he had a therapy treatment for his useless arm and leg at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and took a nostalgic tour of the Merchandise Mart...
Problems have arisen when one House had a surplus and another a dearth of money for adjustment purposes in any given year, Taylor said. In his opinion, the new proposal would achieve needed flexibility and be more practical than the old system, since the Aid Office has had partial responsibility for some time anyway...
...moderate form of progressive income tax. Half of all students, presumably able to afford higher rents, were paying more than $510 a year. They will now be assessed the same amount as those less able to pay. Those on scholarship and a few others will receive full or partial help, but not, as previously, from the higher rents charged to wealthier students...
Such technological changes worry many economists and sociologists. They fear that the unskilled worker, the artisan and the office worker will more and more find their jobs disappearing or changing radically. They see extra leisure for workers as at least a partial answer to the problem, but then they worry about how people will be able to use that extra leisure creatively. Almost everyone agrees that the U.S. is entering what University of California President Clark Kerr calls "the age of the knowledge industry," when men and women of all ages will have to be continuously educated through their lifetimes...