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Contented Underdog. Straining to live down his "brainwashed" gaffe, Romney attacked the President's current handling of the war and his efforts to start negotiations. "I refuse to support an Administration," said Romney, "that cannot wage the conflict effectively or seek peace convincingly...
While hardly major, such mortifications are helping to cloud Percy's chances of being Illinois' favorite-son candidate at next summer's G.O.P. Convention. Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader, has indicated that he will not seek the role since he intends to head the platform committee. Now some downstate delegates, perhaps as many as 20 out of the total of 58, are threatening to ignore Percy and vote for Nixon or Reagan from the outset. Even so, Percy last week accepted the printing industry's Benjamin Franklin Award citing him as "a man of action...
There is talking in Los Angeles, but not much. "We're a helluva long way from anything yet," says a Guild spokesman. Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs...
Pifer urged the creation of a long-range planning center for higher education, drawing heavily on university advisers and given authority to guide federal policy. Its first task would be to seek agreement on how federal aid should be distributed. He rejected the idea of broad, unselective grants to all institutions on the ground that this would merely "perpetuate, only on a more costly scale, everything that is wrong" with higher education now. One. of his proposals was for the designation of a few high-quality existing campuses as "national universities," which would be given preferential support for their scholars...
Both parents and universities have been pressing Congress to adopt a comprehensive student aid program like the Zaccharias proposal. Educational costs have been rising at an average rate of five per cent a year, so even middle-income families have been compelled to seek financial aid. Harvard estimates that a typical family with three children will ask for assistance at an income level of $16,000; New York's Board of Regents says that a family with two children needs a net salary of $9,000 to support a student who commutes to a public college. And as costs continue...