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...Housing is still the national scandal it was then," says the report. "Schools are more tedious and turbulent. The rate of crime and unemployment and disease and heroin addiction are higher than ever. Welfare rolls are larger. And, with few exceptions, the relations between minority communities and the police are just as hostile." If such trends continue, the report concludes bleakly, "most cities by 1980 will be predominantly black and brown, and totally bankrupt...
...exceeded exports for the fourth straight month. Still, now that some of the excitement surrounding the Nixon initiative is subsiding, a hard truth is hitting bankers, businessmen and government leaders the world over: a return to any sort of lasting stability in trade and currency dealings will be tedious, time-consuming and laden with difficulties...
...Stones' songs, one called "Wild Horses," with lines like "Wild horses couldn't drag me away/ Wild horses, we'll ride them someday," and the other a derivative "Brown Sugar." And you get lots of live performances, but frankly the cloying, infatuated photography renders even these tedious after three or four songs; the Maysles seemed to have realized this, and Shelter's nadir comes when they try to jazz up their presentation of "Love in Vain" with rapturous slow-motion andYard,' with its hallowed dormitories that once housed some of our nation's great literary, philosophic and scientific minds...
...subsequent conviction did not penetrate the military's innermost defenses. After all, Galley was hardly one of the elite of the officer corps. He was one of those thousands of peripheral soldiers of ordinary background and average intelligence who slog their way through O.C.S., enjoy a career of tedious assignments in grubby outposts and never, never rise beyond the rank of colonel...
...first round in the fight for a clean environment has been largely won in the U.S., with practically all sides-business, government and consumers-committed to taking some kind of action to control pollution. The second round promises to be longer and far more tedious. It is a vast numbers game involving specific standards of cleanliness, the time limits before they become effective and, most important, the cost of attaining them. Last week, at a hearing held by Senator Edmund Muskie's air-and-water pollution subcommittee, a few answers began to emerge to the question of "Who will...