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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piled up against Harvard culprits and eventually pointed to the Lampoon. Guards told newsmen elaborate stories of a "curly haired boy" standing near the cod, holding a large, long florist's box. 'But," one guard said, "from him came the breath of something other than lilies. It was a sort of alcoholic fragrance." The alcoholic fragrance turned to a drunken stench as the city of Boston got increasingly enraged. The Post reported angrily that "the thief was intoxicated...badly in need of a shave...wore brown clothing...had curly hair." Barber shops were combed for a sign of a curly...
There are no simple solutions to such problems. No matter what sort of subsidy is enacted, inequities are inevitable and perhaps some people will "take advantage" of the subsidy. The relevant question is not how inequitable an income subsidy will be, but how the equity of that subsidy compares with the present distribution of income. No matter what form a subsidy should take, it would almost inevitably compare favorably...
ACADEMIC STANDARDS. The amount of absenteeism, indolence and incompetence permitted students is far greater than that permitted almost any other sort of worker...
...rock bottom, emotionally as well as economically. The son of a Baptist minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing at 13, so he decided to go to Hollywood and be a songwriter. He wangled a $50-a-week job with...
...Neurotic. The country's astonishing postwar recovery-Japan last year achieved a $114 billion gross national product, ranking only after those of the U.S., Russia and West Germany -has been nurtured in a sort of industrial hothouse, where government controls have fended off competing goods and capital from abroad. Now, under pressure from Japan's world trading partners, the government has begun the first of several "liberalization" steps to knock down barriers to foreign capital...