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Common Cause, in a recent publication, "How Money Talks in Congress," has analyzed FEC records. Some of its findings would surely cause our Founding Fathers to turn over in their graves. For example, from January 1975 through July 1978, the nineteen members of the House Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions received campaign contributions totaling $343,389 from PACs and individuals associated with financial institutions. No one got less than $1,000. Observes Fred Wertheimer, "PAC money is investment money, and you want to make a smart investment...
...outraged by the letter to The Crimson, signed by several teaching fellows in the Department of Government, which criticized the recent boycott...
Perhaps because they are so different, rumors are rife that Jane appalls Fred and Fred appalls Jane. But insiders say the relationship is perfectly correct and functional so far. Says one: "There is no needling or irritation between them. If there were, I'd see it." In a recent interview with TIME's Mary Cronin and Laurence I. Barrett, the NBC executives occasionally finished each other's sentences, like a cozy married couple. Still, in an atmosphere of crisis, the notion persists that one must eventually knife the other...
Wallace takes aim and fires in a recent book titled Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman (Dial; $7.95). Tracing the breakdown of black male-female relationships back to the civil rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...
...with this sense of drama that Alexander Woodcock and Monte Davis hail the arrival of catastrophe theory, a methodology as different from traditional science as Marxism was from existing economic thought. Since its formulation around 1964, catastrophe theory has emerged as one of few mathematical breakthroughs in recent times to arouse public interest. The controversy lies in its claim to have broadened the scope of science to include the social sciences and humanities, uniting such diverse phenomena as the collapse of a bridge, the crash of the stock market, and the fall of the Roman empire. Yet its subject...