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...been agitating for professorships in the economics department as a matter of representation, balance, and fairness. Leaving aside the question of the validity of Marxian economics, their complaints are legitimate, for the department is conspicuously overloaded with Keynesians and monetarists. while the details of the conclusions reached by these tow schools may vary, their premises are notably similar...
...instructions to stay aloft and proceeded to land. Aboard was too heavy a load of dreams and ambitions to be put off by the elements. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had arrived hi Grand Forks, N. Dak. After two appearances, the Governor, with half a dozen Republican notables in tow, flew on to Minot, N. Dak. Addressing the guests at a $100-a-plate dinner, the first ever held by local Republicans, Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure of standing next to Dave Germain, during the reception . . . Also just a word...
...Members of the Illinois Gasoline Dealers Association in Chicago banded together to deliver three gallons to each motorist who called, charging the pump price plus a $5 service fee and a $5 donation to the American Cancer Society. Their "hot line" logged more than 500 calls. Tow trucks on Los Angeles freeways dispensed so much fuel that by nightfall they were out and could only push cars off the roadway...
...forbidden three weeks ago. The picturesque villages on the left bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz look all but deserted of tourists on Sundays. The Swiss ski industry is suffering; after two carless Sundays, crowds are thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government has provided from cities. In Belgium, it had long been a national tradition for city families to pile into the car for a drive and Sunday dinner at a distant restaurant...
...TOW (for tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided) antitank missile, a portable weapon that proved extremely effective in Viet...