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...41st annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco last week, the chiefs of the nation's cities had one topic uppermost in their minds: Nixon Administration proposals for special revenue sharing and the inevitable setbacks they pose for the cities. Slated to become effective in July 1974, the Nixon measures would spread existing federally funded programs-including Model Cities and urban renewal-into seven broad areas, with virtually no guidelines from Washington on how money allotted to the cities is to be spent...
...objective, as McCord understood it, was to anticipate the plans of any groups planning violence during the presidential campaign. "Uppermost in everyone's mind at that point in time, and certainly in mine," said McCord, "was the bloodshed which had occurred at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...live. When the Nazis entered Vienna and prospects for the Freud family to escape appeared dim, his daughter Anna asked whether it might not be better to kill themselves. Freud's reply: "Why? Because they would like us to?" Eventually the longing to end the struggle became uppermost, but Schur did not see that as defeat. His book ends with words that Freud himself had written many years earlier: "Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task...
...purely wrong; similarly, no one is entirely responsible or is entirely without blame for the many evils that beset us. Our values and our judgments are not only relative, but can only be practically employed in terms of degrees of intensity. In making practical ethical judgments two things are uppermost in our minds: the degree of voluntariness and the degree of relevance involved. No doubt a good proportion of my taxes go into supporting the bombing of North Vietnam, but I do not hold myself responsible to any meaningful degree on this count for the simple reason that...
...Gambril came to Harvard from the uppermost reaches of national and international swimming. His career dual meet record previous to this year was 67-6, his Long Beach swimmers won the NCAA college-division championships in 1968, and, after moving up to the university division, finished fifth in 1970 and 1971. He was assistant Olympic coach at Mexico City in 1968, coaching eight gold medal winners, and he will be back in Munich this fall. His Phillips 66 AAU team has won three consecutive long-course titles, and his swimmers have established 20 world records. It's been a long...