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...these strained circumstances, there remained the details of closing down a career. Agnew will retain his Secret Service protection for a time. The Senate voted to keep his Capitol Hill staff on the payroll for another month. Some aides had been with him since the days in Baltimore, and there were tears in the room when they heard the news. Like any man who had just been fired, Agnew cleared out his desk and wrote some thank you notes. And he began working on a speech about the whole affair that he will deliver to the nation early this week...
...said that the committee had "more or less decided, but not voted" that the plan be need-based, and that GSAS departments retain autonomy in their choices for distribution...
Basic city services such as street cleaning, trash collection, police protection, recreation and housing code enforcement remain inadequate, while citizens pay soaring taxes. Planning by the city to retain jobs and industry, put the financing of city government on a sound footing, control highrise development or get truck traffic off residential streets, is almost non-existent...
Jobs--First priority must be given to keeping the jobs we now have. The city presently does nothing to retain industry--which should be less costly than attracting new industry. Beyond this, the city's new Office of Economic Development and Manpower should work with the School Department to provide job training for youths and adults that is aimed at both the present and prospective regional job market. Finally, careful planning will be required to see that Cambridge residents receive a major share of the jobs new industry may bring to the city...
...process of education has degenerated into the business of training people who are "qualified." Dore comments that in Japan a college education is almost mandatory for self-advancement. As a result there is extreme pressure on students to qualify for college entrance, but the Japanese have managed to retain the spirit of improving themselves as individuals rather than merely acquiring qualifications. Dore attributes the Japanese desire for self-improvement to the existence of a pedagogical tradition before the Western intervention in the middle of the last century. The old education system had to cope with a society where there existed...