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Says Mrs. Patricia Plotkin, 41, past president of the local League of Women Voters: "Watergate is all you hear talked about. The number of disillusioned Republicans is incredible." Yet in an auto-service shop in the poorer section across town, the workers are fed up with Watergate. "What the hell's the big deal?" booms Mechanic Carl Reed, 51. "Both parties have been doing it for years." Ken Masshart, 34, blasts: "I'm so sick of hearing about it that I couldn't care less. I just jump right over it in the paper and read something...
...above all others is not particularly appropriate in a university setting. Hunt Hall, in its dignity and beauty, represents the style and intellectual heritage which have made Harvard a worthy institution. By tearing the building down and replacing it with an economically more efficient dormitory, Harvard becomes all the poorer despite whatever money saved in the process...
Overshadowing this achievement in the public mind is the rapid increase in the number of blacks on welfare, up from 1.3 million in 1960 to 4.8 million in 1971. Yet the percentage of blacks below the poverty line plunged from 48% to 29%. Thus blacks hardly became poorer during the decade. The needy simply sought public assistance in far greater numbers-and got it. Increased welfare rolls were an indication that society was showing more concern for the poor, not that the poor were growing in number. The appallingly high black crime rate also creates a false impression, say Wattenberg...
...large, the poorer and more primitive the country, the worse the thievery. Says Clemency Coggins, an authority on pre-Columbian art and archaeology: "Not since the 16th century has Latin America been so ruthlessly plundered." Teams descend (sometimes literally, from helicopters) on any of the hundreds of Mayan ceremonial sites that lie scattered throughout Mexico and Guatemala...
...course, is not yet paradise. The Continent still lags well behind the U.S. by the standard measures of wellbeing, but is catching up (see charts). Income is still distributed inequitably, with many poor people within the richer member countries of the Common Market and widespread chronic poverty in the poorer nations of Italy, Britain and Ireland. All too many homes in the slums of Glasgow lack baths and hot water, and in France thousands of working-class families can afford meat only once or twice a week. Throughout the Common Market, however, social benefits help to compensate for low incomes...