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...that far?at least not yet. Actually, more significant than a deadline is the demand for a public commitment that U.S. forces will be totally withdrawn regardless of progress in Saigon or any other factor. The demand for such a withdrawal has increased significantly. In the words of one Rand expert, "Unilateral withdrawal is now respectable." It seems like such a tempting idea to a great many people, so inviting an end to what has become a national nightmare, that the case needs to be reexamined...
...active Senator. A nearly total immersion in Senate business has also acted as a kind of therapy. Occasionally, he fears that he has lost some effectiveness. During a hearing of his Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, for example, Kennedy upbraided Federal Trade Commission Chairman Paul Rand Dixon. Later in the hearing, Maryland Senator Charles Mathias defended Dixon against accusations of undue secrecy and suggested that the FTC practice of not publicizing complaints against various firms was akin to grand jury procedures-which are held in secret...
...team of young lawyers and students assembled by Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader. The latest report may well have more effect than earlier ones, because it comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand Dixon, a Democrat who has held the job since 1961. Dixon has offered to move down and serve until 1974 as one of the five commissioners. Nixon could name the new man as early as this week, when the seven-year term of Commissioner James Nicholson expires...
...networks were forced to air antismoking commercials on TV. Indeed, the tobaccomen's decision to turn off their tremendously expensive and competitive TV campaigns may well have been helped along by the prospect that broadcasters would in turn be allowed to jettison the antismoking spots. FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon suggests that broadcasters should keep right on giving free air time to antismoking...
This futuristic ballad sounds as though it were composed by a computer at the Rand Corp., but In the Year 2525 is the product of two country-pickin' guitarists from Lincoln, Neb., Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who a year ago were thinking about the future mostly in terms of the source of their next meal. Only last November, Zager, 25, and Evans, 26, were working as a duo, trying their best to please the regular customers in a Lincoln motel lounge. With a borrowed $500 they recorded 2525, which has a simple and schmaltzy tune and a chugging...