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...three months the U.S. has gone without an official chief thinker of the unthinkable, the man who must ponder U.S. strategies for averting nuclear destruction. Gerard C. Smith resigned last January as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) after negotiating the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The result was a treaty sharply limiting defensive anti-ballistic missile sites and an interim agreement freezing offensive missiles at roughly current levels for the next five years. To take Smith's place, President Nixon last week named Fred C. Iklé (pronounced ee-CLAY...
...wickedly partisan wag suggested that Republican Fund Raiser Maurice Stans' safe ought to be acquired by the National Archives because so much of the Nixon Administration's history will be based on the safe and its contents. There is just enough truth in that to make one ponder the inordinate obsession of Washington with the dollar...
...that bloc politics will continue, on both sides of the old Iron Curtain. Western Europe will continue on its present track: toward a fairly sophisticated economic federation, but probably well short of a situation in which a Liverpool docker, say, or a Turin auto worker would actually have to ponder, as he steps into a voting booth, whether Willy Brandt would indeed make a good President of Europe...
...make the long trip home. Nonetheless, the jury found him guilty. Now Lansky faces a charge of income tax evasion and one of skimming the profits off Las Vegas casinos, both with long-term sentences. After posting bonds totaling $650,000, he was temporarily free to ponder the high price of crime...
...programs have not been formally scrapped, just suspended while officials ponder whether they do enough good to be continued, possibly in changed form. A case for such restudy can certainly be made. Some of the subsidy programs have been scarred by scandal. Before a belated FHA crackdown, fast-buck operators in a few cities bought or built ramshackle dwellings under Section 235, got inflated valuations from FHA appraisers and sold the buildings to unsuspecting buyers at unjustifiably high prices. In addition, the attempt to move public housing out of the ghettos and scatter it through white middle-class neighborhoods...