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Gung-Ho for Growth? Whatever the numbers, the President has to decide on which of two policies to emphasize. Should he aim for a modest rate of economic recovery, risking a continuation of high unemployment? Or should he strive for a faster snapback, risking more inflation later? Every sign now indicates that the President, prodded by Chief Economist Paul McCracken and Budget Boss George Shultz, has made a decision to go for speedy, job-creating growth. It remains to be seen whether John Connally, Nixon's surprise choice for Secretary of the Treasury, will alter the strategy. Though...
Holy Moses. Their current songs defy categorization because of Taupin's almost cinematic imagery and John's fluent, original fusion of recent pop forms. Border Song ("Holy Moses let us live in peace/Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease") is more authentically gospel than anything Anglican has a right to be. Imported or not, it has quickly been picked up and recorded by blacks like Dorothy Morrison and Aretha Franklin...
...criticize academic standardization in schools- yet too often we engage in it ourselves. We not only organize ourselves conventionally; we prescribe, with little justification, a set number of courses of similar length taught in relatively similar patterns for all students. The eight-half-course/two-term model, which individual faculty strive mightily to subvert, is clearly inadequate to our needs and inconsistent with our rhetoric...
...there is the perennial problem of resource allocation to the various shops. "We will strive for equity within the formula of resource allocation according to service load in the school," said Sizer...
...Scout headquarters envisioned troops such as the Brooklyn Stoners is another matter. Certainly their chant would startle some suburban Scoutmasters. "Stoners, Stoners, hard as we can be. Stoners, Stoners, for real. Dig on me. Never victims of a needle high. Hard work, cleaning up dirt and a forward strive, no jive. That's cur high...