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Every administration has had scandals--the recent cases of Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, and Billy Sol Estes come to mind. It is safe to predict that a McGovern Administration would have a few embarrassments in its wake as well. Not that scandals are morally defendable, but experience suggests that they are politically inevitable. Old-fashioned graft at least distributes its burdens more equitably and less destructively than certain majoritarian programs which are quite legal and above-board...
Homans declined to predict the Circult Court's new opinion, noting that "there are so many sub-issues involved." He said, however, that he was optimistic that "we're on the same side as the U.S. Supreme Court...
Members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict a record $110 billion increase in national output next year, but most of them believe that the nation's overall jobless rate will come down only to an average of 5%. Nixon Adviser Alan Greenspan adds that he expects the rate to range between 41% to 51% for several years. The Government's traditional "full employment" target is 4%; the irreducible jobless rate, composed of people moving between jobs and those only marginally employable, is a matter of guesswork. The mid-point of the experts' guesses...
Under the highly specific agreement, Soviet scientists will help American experts probe the air-pollution problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems...
...Philadelphia, where 13,000 teachers demanded a 34% pay raise, shorter working hours and smaller classes. In response, the school board, which already faces a $52 million deficit, proposed that 485 jobs be eliminated and that teachers accept more work and only token pay raises. Both sides predict that the strike may last as long as three months. In Detroit, on the other hand, the city's 11,000 teachers agreed that because the city is nearly bankrupt they would accept a new contract containing neither pay increases nor improvements in working conditions...