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Tactics of the Boss Tweed era are out of style in Washington, but patronage still figures in the granting of too many jobs. Several bills, now pending in Congress would set state quotas for summer jobs and prohibit discriminatory hiring practices. These measures, along with continued surveillance by the Civil Service Commission, would help to create in fact the strict employment merit system that passed into law eighty years...
During last year's gubernatorial campaign in California, for example, Richard Nixon frequently pledged that, if elected, he would prohibit the appearance of any "subversive speaker" on state campuses. Kerr's acid reaction was to comment that "we will certainly consider Mr. Nixon's requests...but we will do exactly as we please...
...practice given administrators in Ceylon nightmares. The report drew from the habit of some Latin American governments (of subsidizing inefficient state-owned concerns for purposes of patronage) the general moral that the U.S. should not support state industries which compete with private ones. If followed, this principle will prohibit A.I.D.'s granting India's request for $600 million to cover the external costs of a new government steel mill, a project that Ambassador Galbraith has strongly supported...
...statements attributed to me in the article are incorrectly reported. I made no statements whatsoever on the subject of the recent decision by the House Masters to prohibit joint house social affairs off Harvard property. The "quotation that your reporter attributed to me is actually a paraphrase of remarks by Gary Burkhardt. The comments immediately following the quotation are also incorrectly reported, since I made no such remarks at any time...
...proposed parking restrictions would prohibit all stopping during rush hours. The lane next to the curb can be restricted to buses and cars about to make right turns. "Where bus lane regulations are properly enforced," claims Rudolph, "both buses and traffic move faster...