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...agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Edgar Berman about the danger of having members of the weaker sex in the White House or any other position of power [Aug. 10]. Let us get rid of all the hormonally unbalanced, aging males with mounting anxieties over their own impotency and inadequacy, and corresponding need to prove themselves on the national and international battle fronts...
...paradox that is the American way of life never ceases to amaze me. First you spend millions of dollars to find more and better ways to increase the productivity of the land, and then spend millions finding ways to get rid of the surplus and paying farmers not to plant anything. Now as a person involved with health, I am flabbergasted to learn that the nation that spends the most on research directed toward fighting disease, and that boasts one of the longest life expectancies in the world, should pay such little attention to the aged benefactors of that research...
...free as a man to bum ?ountry or through Europe? ?y to sit down in a park with a book or a sketch pad for more than five minutes without some character feeling it his obligation to make an attempt at picking you up? Of course you can get rid of him but your peace of mind is shattered for that...
...merchants are frightened and angry, and have been the prime movers in the City Council crackdowns on freaks in the Square. The new militancy means more than protection against future riots, it means "cleaning up" the Square, getting rid of unpleasantries like panhandling which are keeping potential customers out of the Square and money out of the merchants' pockets...
...does everyone have to come to Harvard Square. Why not Newton Square of Medford." asks Jacobs. "I'm not talking about killing the grass, just getting rid of the weeds, that...