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...well furnished, in fact the whole house is very comfortable, and brightly lit. A photograph of the New Riders of the Purple Sage sits on a fancy easel to one side, and there are poster for Ann Arbor rock concerts on the walls. I think: It's strange to relax in a strange home with strangers. Paul graciously keeps handing me a full balloon when mine's empty and refills the old one at the tank. If I were really taking it easy with friend I'd play thus album first, too. Probably in every voltage town in the country...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Riding to Ann Arbor | 1/16/1973 | See Source »

...have his primary economic aides, notably Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. They would clearly like to loosen the system, perhaps by exempting more retailers, landlords and small-to medium-size companies. Most important, however, high Administration officials aim soon to relax the limits on profit-margin increases, which have infuriated many businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PREVIEW OF 1973: The Delights and Dangers of a Boom | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Rising at 5 or 6 in the morning, he drives hard during the daylight hours until late afternoon, when he drops everything to relax. He likes to play poker or go to the races. Nobody has understood why he built a swimming pool at his Dallas home since he rarely goes near the water. Strauss explains: "Because I like to come home after a hard day at the office, pour myself a martini, open the blinds, look out on that pool and say: 'Strauss, you are one rich sonabitch.' " And everybody smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Mellower Mood | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

Another common suggestion for change is to relax General Education requirements under the name of liberalization. Paradoxically, this proposal means that further steps away from liberal education should be taken. The idea that an educated man should have a comprehensive understanding rather than competence in one narrow field led at Harvard to the establishment of courses aiming to provide that understanding. Unfortunately, these courses have become increasingly specialized and irrelevant to the proper concerns of students: it is mere wishful thinking to suppose that a math major can achieve a liberal education by taking a course on painting in Renaissance...

Author: By James W. Muller, | Title: Some Thoughts on Educational Reform | 12/5/1972 | See Source »

...smaller meeting of party chiefs called later in the week by Perón (who this time did not attend), the party heads agreed on half a dozen demands to be presented to the military government of Alejandro Lanusse, including a key one that the junta relax a ruling that all presidential candidates had to be in the country by Aug. 25 of this year. That would allow Perón-who missed the deadline by nearly three months-to run for president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Some of the Old Magic | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

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