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...years ago when he told Congress that "the best available evidence indicates that most of the compensatory education programs have not measurably helped poor children catch up." No research since then warrants any other conclusion; the only development since 1970 has been the emergence of busing as a potent political issue...
Consumer spending, the most potent force for expansion, is the weakest indicator so far. The latest index of consumer sentiment compiled by the University of Michigan notes that people are now more confident than in recent months about the prospects of the economy in general, but expectations for their own personal finances are no better than they were in the final quarter of last year. Consumer buying edged up .2% in January over the previous month, and then down .2% in February. Though March Easter sales ballooned in volume at most major stores, there is little evidence...
...which emerged, like dinosaur bones, the battered marble of ancient Rome. If this is so, it adds a facet to one's view of Piranesi's most famous suite, the Carceri d'Invenzione or "Imaginary Prisons," which he engraved in 1745. They are among the most potent dream images ever evoked. To call them precursors of Surrealism is to diminish their oneiric power, for their directness as statements about hallucination has not been equaled this century...
...more relaxed, more informal. Our crews are smaller and communication is better-most black film makers want to be realistic." Says Hugh Robertson, a black film editor hired by MGM to direct his first movie: "Some of the stories we'd like to make are still too potent for the studios to tackle, but the masses can be educated." Ossie Davis is even more optimistic. "The impact made on American music can be duplicated in film," he says. "It can become our medium. As outsiders in America, our life-style is richer, more rhythmic and colorful...
...price controls, unemployment and the general economic situation as anyone else," notes Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In abandoning the board, Meany and his union supporters now will become readymade scapegoats if the Administration's anti-inflation efforts fail. They have also provided the President with a potent election issue among the growing numbers of voters who view labor's incessant demands for ever higher wages as irresponsible and unfair...