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...seems quite shocking that white workers earn 50% more than black workers. But we are even more disturbed by the fact that the best paid fifth of all white workers earns 600% more than the worst paid fifth. From this viewpoint, racial inequality looks almost insignificant...
...Another Misfire" [Aug. 21] again presents TIME'S extreme viewpoint on the highly controversial issue of gun control. It does not do credit to your usual careful reporting. Surely it is not unreasonable for you to admit the possibility that the National Rifle Association and Governor George Wallace, not to mention the United States Senate, are also thinking and acting in what they consider to be the best interests of the nation in the matter of firearms legislation...
Some Nixon Administration economists have been having unusual trouble with their wives lately. The economists insist that figures show the pace of inflation to be slackening, but the wives reply that their weekly bills at the supermarket show no such thing. Last week the wives' viewpoint won a round. The Government announced that the consumer price index in July showed its most rapid rise since February, mostly because of that persistent ogre, climbing food costs...
...Wilson's heroes is Jules Michelet, a poor printer's son who discovered Vice's ideas in 1824 and used them to create a new kind of history, written as if from the viewpoint of the past, dedicated to human progress and infected with the notion that the common people are more important than their leaders. "To know how to be poor," Michelet once said, "is to know everything...
Although the airfields from which the Badgers flew have reverted to Egypt, the Soviets hope to retain the use of Egyptian naval bases at Alexandria and Mersa Matruh. From Cairo's viewpoint, that could be an acceptable exchange for a continuing flow of spare parts and equipment replacements for the Egyptian armed forces and for economic aid. The naval bases are well out of view and thus Soviet personnel would not be a political embarrassment for President Sadat...