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...tempered by 25 years on the Hill, is out on the stump, his rhetoric sometimes suggests that he would abolish the entire Government. As head of that Government, he must know, after a year's on-the-job training, that some of his campaign lines are pure baloney. But he cannot cure the congressional hangover. Some of Ford's vetoes, often delivered with simplistic and negative explanations, represent a denial of the legitimate, if costly advances our society has made in the past years. On the other hand, many of the bills that he ve toed were grab...
...ready Michigan authorities became when they learned that Helfgot admitted he was getting his information about Hoffa fourth-hand-by talking to a courier who was talking to gangsters who were talking to a man who had knowledge of the whereabouts of Hoffa's burial. "It's pure baloney," said one federal investigator. "That stuff about the Mafia is bunk. Look, if the Mob wanted Hoffa's body found, they would have it found...
...truth of the matter, of course, is that football games against Columbia prove little more than how merciful Joe Restic is feeling on any given day. The last time the Lions from New York City walked on the Harvard Stadium turf--two years ago--they spent 60 minutes of pure misery en route to their 57-0 humiliation. Joe had probably fallen out of bed that...
...pure chaos. Billy Jack movies are confusing. Laughlin, who wrote the scripts for both films, portrays Billy as a passive fellow-within limits. Billy's enemies are big business, cops, state officials and rednecks. He supports "dissidents"-mainly students and Indians who, he makes clear, live off money from the Government they claim is hounding them. Billy likes to meditate but the movies' emotional climax comes when massed throngs scream as he starts to speak...
When discussing history, however, Smith is on better ground. Since World War II and especially after the Soviet Sputnik launching in 1958, the government and big business foundations have poured money into selected schools. They have tailored their gifts to expansion of pure and applied science programs that train scientists for corporate research and development, mainly involving military contracts. Since 1945, only two per cent of state and corporate money has been given to social sciences, apparently in the belief that studying different political and social systems might make future technical workers too critical to heed thoughtlessly commands to maximize...