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...This Family Assistance Plan was assailed by conservatives as a handout, criticized by liberals as too stingy and virtually abandoned by Nixon, who failed to lobby for it and let it die in the Senate in 1972. When all the hearings and early skirmishing are over, Ford will probably recommend some form of single and uniform federal cash grants, with tougher procedures for determining who should get them. But whatever he proposes, he will be doing it in a volatile election year, and the temptation on all sides to score political points will be strong...
Against Exhaustion. Most exercise physiologists insist that people must exercise strenuously if they are to benefit from their activity, and they recommend daily sessions on the track or a stationary bicycle and regular workouts on a handball or squash court. Morehouse, who developed simple "cabin exercises" for the Navy and the astronauts, offers a "no-sweat" alternative. He believes that people can lose weight and keep it off simply by "saying no to an extra piece of toast in the morning and an extra ounce of Scotch at night." He maintains that people can get into good condition and stay...
More conventional physiologists commonly recommend at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. They find Morehouse's program preposterous. "It's an impossibility to develop total cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness in 30 minutes a week," says Dallas Physician Kenneth Cooper. His "aerobics" program, originally developed for the Air Force, aims at improving heart, lung and circulatory function through strenuous but graded exercises that promote the system's more efficient use of oxygen. The Morehouse book, Cooper complains, "is going to do a disservice to a person who wants to use exercise to practice preventive medicine...
...psychiatrists recommend an assertive stance for black children. In the past, aggressive black males were likely to be in danger of being beaten or arrested; as a result, some parents tried to crush normal aggressive behavior in their children when they were very young. Today, there is another worry. Explain Poussaint and Comer: "We blacks have a concern about the threat of training or 'brainwashing' black children to be passive or nonaggressive. We fear this has or can lead to acceptance of and adjustment to an unjust society." Blacks must always stand up for their rights, they believe...
...major cities according to a series of criteria that made perfectly good sense-things having to do with education, income levels, population density, and so forth-and New Orieans not only came out near the bottom but also, judging from the Harper's critreris, had very litle to recommend itself. Forced to defend the city, I find my mind funning toward gravestones of white flaky plaster covered by intruding vines, but usually I find it hard to tell people about them...