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...program to combat alcoholism through research, education and funding of local programs. Starting with $70 million in 1971, federal spending has now reached $194 million. Eighty-five percent of this amount is allotted to treatment, rehabilitation centers and halfway houses, many of which would no doubt still be only token efforts without substantial federal funding to the states...
Reuben Holden of Yale was named on more than one ballot and thus gets the token Daily spot...
...drain. In his obsession with the difficulty of seeing, Giacometti wished to get beyond style. He partially succeeded because - paradoxical as it may seem - he was culturally saturated, an artist of enormous erudition who boasted without much exaggeration of having visited the Louvre 50,000 times. (By the same token, Giacometti's complaints about the difficulty of making any kind of a mark on paper only become intelligible when they are recognized as uttered by a man who was arguably the best living European draftsman in the 1960s, Picasso not excluded...
...probably fruitless to argue that economics should be an apolitical, value-free science of analysis, that setting social objectives is outside its proper realm. If so, one can only hope that all points of view could be allowed at least token representation. With monetarists clamoring for state control of currency, Keynesians for state control of currency and investment, and Marxists for state control of these and everything else besides, is it too much to ask for a few libertarian economists, content to teach the workings of an unhampered market? Lawrence H. white '77 Marc E. Chardon '75 Christopher M. Berendes...
...administration threw the decision to close at us [students] last December, and although they took a token faculty vote, students had no say in the matter," Artega said. "People aren't talking about it anymore. Everyone is just plunging into their work...