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...flow of cheap foreign oil into the U.S. The report of a Cabinet Task Force recommending changes in the current system of restrictive import quotas is expected to land on the President's desk this week. Its contents are officially secret, but enough details have already leaked to roil the industry and start what promises to develop into a fierce debate...
...though he generally skimps on insights, he does his fitful best to sort out many of the key trends and controversies that now roil American...
...tougher the state, the bigger the lies. New York is the only state with only one ground for divorce: adultery as proved by third-party testimony. As a result, divorces that are contested by one of the parties roil in perjury and mudslinging. In uncontested cases, New Yorkers can get divorced by hiring a professional "other woman," but many childless couples prefer to seek annulments based on phony claims of refusal to bear children; New York has more annulments than any other state. Whatever their other disagreements, affluent couples usually agree to flee to divorce in easier states. A strong...
Enter Walker. When the Kennedy Administration took over, it made evident that it was going to crack down on military talkers. The first victim was Chief of Naval Operations, Arleigh Burke. A routine anti-Communist Burke speech was heavily cut by Pentagon censors on grounds that it might roil negotiations for the release of two U.S. RB-47 flyers held prisoner in the Soviet Union. In the week that followed, lesser military leaders submitting speeches for clearance got them back heavily blue-penciled. Finally, last spring, the controversy blew wide open with the Walker case...
...doorstep of a prominent white parson who has six children, nine bathrooms, liberal views and a carnivorous wife. The reader is encouraged, feeling that from such a start Schwartz cannot fail to arrive somewhere. For a while this optimism is justified; idealism, hypocrisy and natural family contentiousness roil before one's very eyes, and the parson's eldest daughter, horrified to see her parents act like racists, dashes off to college with the baby...