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MANY WHO ARE COOL to merger predict the disappearance or mutation of Education for Action and the Radcliffe Institute. Citing the old, but potent tradition of male domination at Harvard, these people argue that Radcliffe has no guarantee that Harvard will change any of its practices after merger. Granted, merger is no panacea for social inequities which are reflected in and fostered by the University, but neither is merger the suicide note that it is pictured by opponents. A merger is a contract, an agreement in which both parties stipulate the conditions of their new relationship. Radcliffe will have...
Edgar Hoover, urging him to use "maximum available resources" of his agency to investigate and predict riots. Angered at Johnson's refusal to allow wiretapping and electronic bugs against gangsters, Hoover balked. In fact, he proceeded to scrap many of the FBI'S more dubious but productive techniques, such as burglarizing the homes and monitoring the mail of suspected spies and criminals. Stymied by Hoover and realizing that not even the 8,700 agents of the FBI could cope with riots, the Johnson Administration turned to the U.S. Army as a tool of massive retaliation, giving...
None will yet predict an outright recession in 1974, but several foresee a period during which growth will be insignificant. Several warn that an actual recession could occur, given policy mistakes that it would be all too easy for the Government to make...
Much of the uncertainty stemmed from a belief that the disarray in Government caused by the Watergate scandal makes Washington's policy in guiding the economy especially difficult to predict...
Last week Finance Minister Kiichi Aichi predicted that Japan's trading account with the U.S. would actually slip into the red in May and stay there for several months. That may be an overstatement, but Japanese businessmen and politicians now predict that the trade surplus with the U.S. this year will drop to less than $2.5 billion, from $4.2 billion in 1972. Deliberate government policies to restrain exports and dismantle Japan's once awesome array of protectionist restrictions on foreign goods are obviously having an effect. So, too, is the sharp rise in the value...