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...write that Johnson is "so possessed by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him." Is this the much lauded Great Society? What will be left of individual responsibility and initiative? What is left for man to work for if the Federal Government provides shelter, education, health services and retirement benefits...
When it comes to Great Society legislation Johnson is insatiable. So possessed is he by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him. In his domestic program, the present is already the past, and Johnson is looking forward to greater achievements in the future. No fewer than a dozen presidential task forces are laboring to come up with creative ideas and constructive approaches to such American problems as transportation, water pollution, education and urban affairs. No matter...
...York with A.P. and U.P.I., and from time to time Russian newsmen drop in to observe U.S. wire-service operations. All told, there are some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen waiting for someone to open the door," says a Columbia University Kremlinologist who monitors the Soviet press...
Financial Woes. The publishers confirmed Pressman's scoop, but they were not offering any details. Best guess, however, was that Scripps-Howard's Telly and Hearst's J-A would merge, quite possibly under the editorial direction of the Journal. That would leave the New York Post the only other remaining afternoon paper. In addition, the Sunday edition of the Trib would combine with the Journal's Sunday paper (the Telly has no Sunday edition). At the same time, the papers are exploring the possibility of combined printing operations to cut production costs, and are considering...
...often been alleged that Cliffies are a fairly pitiful group of people. If the allegation needed any proof, it was provided by a recent CRIMSON scoop of stop-the-presses proportions. This scoop revealed that the Cliffies of Cabot Hall have succeeded in having the small cokes normally dispensed by the local Coke machine replaced by big ones...