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...plan to give local governments more spending power also calls for dismantling some Great Society programs that did specific things for specific people -paying for remedial-reading teachers for poor schoolchildren, for instance. Nixon means to pool many of those resources under a broader rubric, in this case, education. It would be up to the state or the city getting the federal money to spend as it chose, as long as the general purpose of education was advanced. No one, not even the experts at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, can yet say for certain how such crucial...
...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
Meantime, however, thousands of more constructive citizens-hardhats, longhairs. soldiers, schoolchildren-joined in round-the-clock efforts to rescue birds and mop up beaches. Standard Oil rushed in big supplies of cleaning equipment. The Coast Guard launched an investigation. For one thing, most other shipping had been suspended during the fog, and the Standard tankers had no pilots. In addition state legislators introduced bills aimed at strengthening navigational and piloting safeguards in California's inland waters...
...foolish, irresponsible bully-boy tactics drew justified cries of outrage from Russians. At the Soviet mission in New York, a diplomat complained that even Soviet schoolchildren were being disparaged by hecklers from a synagogue across the street. "Our Soviet people don't believe in God," he said, "but we respect religious buildings. Yet these people who say they believe in God climb on top of the synagogue and shout four-letter words at our children. The leaders of the synagogue say they don't approve, but they don't do anything. I simply do not believe that...
Indeed, doctors are not above using such folk remedies themselves. In New York, researchers found that the wart count among some schoolchildren declined dramatically after doctors painted the growths with a bright vegetable dye. Dr. Goldman has tried an even more mystical method. He asks suggestible children to send him a detailed tracing of the wart-covered hand or foot. Then he burns the diagram and tells the youngsters that their warts will disappear in a few weeks. They usually...