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Health and age were clearly linked. At first it seemed the need for a robust Pope might eliminate the previous rule of thumb that made 60 an absolute minimum age for a new Pope. But this idea receded as the week progressed, partly because tradition is not easily abandoned in the church, and because the Cardinals are only too aware of the unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied...
Ideological "Disincentives." Even as Carter was outlining his export program, he reaffirmed his commitment to his human rights crusade. Whatever its moral and political merits, the program has hurt exports. Given the generally accepted rule of thumb that every $1 billion in exports supports 30,000 to 40,000 jobs, the cost of the various official "disincentives" to trade is high. Treasury officials reckon that the U.S. loses up to $10 billion a year in sales because of various foreign policy considerations. The Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act, for example, denies the most-favored-nation status...
...Koch agrees. "New York will not be New York again till the papers are back," he believes. Meanwhile he can be seen wandering around the neighborhood of his old Greenwich Village apartment, lantern in hand, looking for an honest newspaper. "I pick up the Washington Post," he sighs. "I thumb through it for 15 minutes. And I say to myself, 'Why am I reading this...
Excerpt " Of course, there's class. Look around you. A man driving a Cadillac feels he can thumb his nose at me because I'm driving an old V.W.' 'You know there's class when you're in a department store and a well-dressed lady gets treated better.' 'Most people look down on the poor like me because you have to live so shabby and can't help yourself.' 'I'm a carpenter and I won't fit with doctors and lawyers or in country club...
...this point certain deans who, taking time out from their undoubtedly busy schedules to thumb through this edition, are beginning to snicker at the above argument. A plea for dispassionate judgment in the page of The Crimson, they are saying to themselves right about now, is surely one of the higher forms of hypocrisy. The Crimson has been for too long outspoken, too--in their minds, too soiled--to make such a compelling argument with a clear conscience. And they turn the page...