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Cutbacks in Federal housing grants by the Nixon Administration have jeopardized the plans for two Harvard housing programs and indirectly threaten to force the University to discontinue subsidies for community housing...
Across America, crises over money, schoolroom violence and forced busing threaten to overwhelm the cities' public schools. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the school districts are reeling under deficits totaling tens of millions of dollars. In New York and Los Angeles assaults on teachers and students were at an alltime high. In Washington and Richmond, so many white families have fled to the suburbs that the city schools are being left, de facto, segregated...
With few exceptions, the critical essays that make up most of The Vonnegut Statement are founded on the rustiest claptrap in literary exegesis. Moby Dick whale imagery, phrases like "an inversion of the objective correlative" and "eschatological imperatives" constantly threaten everyone with intellectual lockjaw. For one assistant professor, the idea of Dynamic Tension in Cat's Cradle evokes Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, although Charles Atlas' muscle-building method is more in keeping with Vonnegut's unpretentious style and sources...
Both F&M and Rutgers will threaten in the lightweights...
...congressional furor building against Nixon's policies is especially ominous. In his budget message, the President did not specifically threaten to impound funds that Congress might appropriate for the programs that he wants to eliminate. He did not have to; no Representative or Senator could be unaware that the President already has decided to impound roughly $4 billion that Congress wanted spent this fiscal year on highways, control of water pollution, and farm and other programs. His tactics have unified Congressmen of every ideology against what they consider a defiance of their constitutional power to control spending...