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...worst spell of unemployment in recent years. The overwhelming proportion of his tax benefits go to big business. The rich profit greatly from investment credits and advanced depreciation. In the short run, unfortunately, while the rich become wealthier the unemployed remain jobless. Richard Nixon is the modern version of Robin Hood he steals from the poor and gives to the rich...
...many other campuses, however, there has been something of a shift back to the traditional departments, even without advertisements. "Students don't seem as negative about hard-core academic subjects as they used to be," says Administrator Robin Clouser of the University of Kansas. "There is no longer a big demand here for courses in Eastern philosophy or arts and crafts." At Case Western Reserve, modern-language enrollments dropped 70% when the courses were made optional in 1969 but had rebounded about 25% by this year. By popular demand, Princeton this fall launched a new interdisciplinary major in medieval...
...denies that Daly makes frequent trips to Washington. Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for Government and Community Affairs estimates that he and Daly averaged roughly ten days a month in Washington last year when Congress was in session. Daly, uncharacteristically modest, states that he has been to Washington "as many as two times" a month...
...Pity the Robin...
...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...