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...most of his young Administration, Richard Nixon has seemed the artful juggler, tossing up fragile plates of policy into mischievous air currents. War and inflation threaten to spoil the performance. A Democratic Congress stands ready to harass him. To those who elected him, there are promises to keep; from those who voted against him, there are conflicting demands. He has failed to improve his relations with black Americans, and he has been unable really to placate white Southerners who feel that the pace of integration is too quick. Many intellectuals and journalists anticipate the crash of crockery with glee...
...enter the public consciousness, a labor conflict must ordinarily threaten the supply of essential goods and services, like steel or transportation. Politicians and the public take notice only when there is great impact on the economy, when spectacular bloodshed occurs or when well-recognized issues are at stake. The grape strike seems to meet none of these criteria. Americans could easily live without the table grape if they had to, and even that minor sacrifice has been unnecessary. The dispute has been relatively free of violence. Neither great numbers of men nor billions of dollars are involved. The welfare...
...also easy to see why any serious confrontation can threaten the whole life of a University. As long as there are only minor tests, the old habits and established procedures prevent most members of the community from taking a full view of the crisis. One handles the issues raised one by one, and tries to fit a complex and global challenge into creaky mechanisms that were set up to cope with such a situation. Now, inevitably, they perform erratically: not well enough to appease the desires of the impatient ones, not to mention the rebels who would anyhow not want...
Taken at simple face value, McClellan's first subpoena does not threaten the universities very much more than does the current Congressional talk of "anti-riot" legislation. McClellan apparently is not going to use the information to try to take aid away from the 32 students. That discriminatory use of Federal aid as a whip against poor students may come, but it will come from another committee. And the information that McClellan forced out of Holyoke Center is far from secret. If he had been in a hurry, McClellan could have sent an aide to the Office of Education files...
...very strength, however, is now a source of tension and trouble both inside and outside Germany. Twice within seven months, a speculative rush to buy marks has weakened the finances of West Germany's al lies and roiled international monetary affairs. At home, the blessings of prosperity now threaten to turn into the pangs of inflation. What happens in Germany next will have a vital effect on all of Europe...