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Swallows return to Capistrano, and pigeons come home to roost. Even lemmings find something of a home on the wrong side of the seaside cliffs from which they like to dive. But for governors of Massachusetts, it seems, the only place to head after the end of a term is Harvard--and so that is what Michael S. Dukakis has done...
Said Brown in his second-term inaugural address: "It is time to get off the treadmill, to challenge the assumption that more government spending automatically leads to better living." His solution: amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit the government from spending more each year than its revenues...
Leonard Woodcock, chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, warns that the establishment of a U.S. press corps is "going to be a long, difficult process." Apartments and office space are virtually unavailable in Peking, and most of the news organizations will end up scrambling for long-term leases on some of the city's 5,000 suitable hotel rooms. If necessary, quips CBS News President Richard S. Salant, "we'll put our correspondents up in a tent." The cost of maintaining a Peking bureau can be high (upwards of $100,000 a year for print journalists...
...antipsychotic drug, joined in group therapy and even found herself distrusting the doctor. Indeed, at times she experienced all the misery of madness, including moments of almost suicidal depression. Yet Estroff is not at all insane. Rather, she has just spent two remarkable years studying certifiable "crazies" (their own term) by living among them...
...Germans favored splitting off the administrative costs of the antiracism grants from the regular W.C.C. budget so that individual denominations could dissociate themselves from the program. Others wanted to end the grants. After lively debate, the central committee voted in favor of Potter's proposal for a long-term "consultation" over the antiracism program. Apparently left in force is a 1971 central-committee dictum that the W.C.C. does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." Potter declared that most of the dissenters...