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...Apathy. Political scandals and corruption (see TIME ESSAY) will provoke widespread cries for reform. After the revelation that President Nixon paid only $792 in federal taxes on income of $262,942 in one year, the people will undoubtedly pressure Congress to raise the minimum tax and tighten up on deductions. Sentiment is building for some kind of public financing of elections so that the grubbier payoffs of Watergate will not be repeated. There will also be public pressure for laws requiring politicians to put on "public stripteases," revealing all about their finances...
...Harvard teams are to remain eligible for league titles, all Ivy contests will have to be completed before the start of playoff competition in early March. Schedules may tighten significantly through February as a result...
...PAST five years, the Harvard administration has warned its constituents to tighten their belts for a period of financial stringency. An overall economic recession, coupled with a decline in government grants and rising costs, the administrators said, would mean that Harvard would find its resources heavily burdened and that this burden would have to be shared by all--administrators, faculty and students...
...fiscal screw continue to tighten on public television. In the past two years Nixon has vetoed three appropriations bills. With the Ford Foundation preparing to move out of public TV, a mad scramble for corporate benefactors is the only hope against program cancellation. Many programs and ideas have died in this assault against public television. Other programs, like WGBH's award winning "The Advocates," are just barely surviving. If funds can't be found immediately, "The Advocates," too, will fall by February...
...Besides not being able to tighten up our defense, we were shooting like three-year-olds," Jonckheer said after the game...