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Besides Brandt's personal triumph, the election results were a victory of the heart over the pocketbook. Barzel had campaigned long and hard on the issue of inflation, a particular horror to most West Germans. But Brandt, with his state treaty with East Germany, had delivered something more intensely personal for millions of voters: the promise that they would now be allowed to visit relatives and home cities under Communist rule that they had not seen in years...
More than crime in the streets or corruption in high places, more even than racial antogonisms or the general feeling of alienation, the domestic issue that rivets the attention of Americans in the economy. High taxes, higher prices, high unemployment- these are the pocketbook problems that the voters are talking about. To solve the problems, Richard Nixon and George McGovern are presenting not just contrasting programs but fundamentally different visions of what American society should be like. In a second Administration, Nixon would strive for economic stability above all else and seek to interfere as little as possible price private...
With the influenza season just around the corner, and presumably hundreds of wonder-drug prescriptions looming in the near future, be forewarned that you are likely to find your pocketbook plagued, as well as your body...
...annually by 1974), gave added impetus to an idea that was thought heretical a few years ago: Blue Cross-style insurance plans covering the average citizen's legal costs, from a home purchase to a divorce. "The public interest, as well as the lawyer's pocketbook, is at stake," said new A.B.A. President Robert Meserve. "To put the matter bluntly, we need the business and the clients...
...concerned about your pocketbook, many more of the Square's restaurants are ready to please (or displace, as the case may be). Chez Jean (1 Shephard St.) has very fine French food, considerably better than Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.) But Dreyfus attracts many distinguished Harvard faculty members and administrators, including President Bok, who eats chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce there on most working days...