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...smoke out volunteer workers, especially among the young. "We'll make the party so vigorous on issues," says Harris, "that the people we need will want to get involved." To this end, Harris will name a Democratic Advisory Council to provide the "out" party with the ideological thrust of a shadow government so that it can develop its own legislative programs and keep its platform up to date...
Only lately has that consensus shown real signs of disintegrating. Modern society has established all sorts of machinery for regulating and improving man. But the regulatory machinery keeps breaking down, as it did in the two great World Wars. The 20th century, marked by an almost numbing thrust of knowledge and human ingenuity, is now infected with correspondingly profound pessimism...
...question remains: where is the money to come from? Can the U.S. afford it? In managing the nation's economy, President Nixon's freedom of maneuver will be fairly circumscribed at first; he inherits from Johnson a budget that can be altered and amended but whose thrust and direction derive from past commitments and certain built-in increases, such as mandated pay raises for civil servants and the armed forces. Nor can he redirect the course of spending from the huge reservoir of obligations previously authorized by Congress (current total: $190 billion...
...grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little of his design; he has remained immured in his Manhattan headquarters, working long hours but making few public statements. Washington waits this week with quiet anticipation for the installation of Richard Nixon, uncertain about the tone and thrust of his presidency, but looking happily forward to the fun and fanfare of the celebration...
...highly profitable to the industry. A growing suspicion that the police are losing the fight against lawlessness, which will cost $20 billion this year in thefts, riot damage and other losses, has steadily increased the business of suppliers of private guards and security equipment. But most of the thrust is toward providing new, nonlethal hardware for the police, whose basic gun-and-billy-club arsenal has changed little in 100 years...