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Harvard was shocked when the Ford Foundation said that the "seed [temporary] money," (approximately $500,000) for East Asian Studies would cease in 1975, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday. For almost 20 years Ford has provided "seed money," presumably to sustain EAS until the university could secure endowed funding...
Unable to sustain its present scorching pace, the U.S. economy will begin to falter in the second half of this year and then slow drastically in 1974. That in essence is the opinion of TIME'S Board of Economists, evolved at a daylong meeting last week that turned into a kind of advance obituary of the present boom...
...performed impressively. The seven Senators and two staff counsel displayed a commendable capacity to be both considerate of the witnesses and tough on vague answers. Lawyers all and unrestricted by courtroom rules of evidence, the interrogators constitute a fearsome array of antagonists for any witness who might try to sustain any lies. Equally merciless are the TV cameras, which reveal the slightest hesitation in answering or telltale signs of discomfort and deceit...
...pioneer among the American "film-as-art"-ists, Brakhage's goal is to make films which will maintain lasting value and sustain an infinite number of screenings. As such his medium is hardly the mass-age: Joyce and Picasso imply Brakhage far more directly than do Warner Bros. or Warhol. In fact, Brakhage's relationship to the tidal wave of free-form image-ination films is strikingly similar to Picasso's to cubism...
...ablest of Nixon's appointees (in no way tainted by Watergate) sometimes broods: "It is much too easy to destroy a President." The fact is, it is not easy at all. The American governmental system gives tremendous security to a President. He can sustain severe political defeats, even scandals, and still function reasonably effectively as President. What he cannot do after defeat and scandal is pose as the supreme embodiment of American history and purpose or some democratic monarch by divine right. But he was never meant to be that-even without defeat and scandal. It may be that...