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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immune Pros. Naturally, the Philippine crime rate has stubborn social origins, including the trauma of Japanese occupation, serious unemployment, an average annual income of $140 and the growing pains of a very young nation. In addition the Philippine legal system is appallingly weak. At the top, the Supreme Court's jurisdiction is so all-embracing that the court has an ever-mounting backlog (now three years), and some decisions are reached only after six years. The country's lower courts are so swamped (243,200 cases) that even Manila's generally hardworking judges cannot get around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Public Unsafety | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...noninflationary budget deficit for fiscal 1967, which began in July. As it turned out, the cost of Viet Nam this year was $10 billion greater than the President publicly estimated, and, says Chicago Economist John Langum, "Viet Nam was to the booming economy like too much beer to a weak bladder." Instead of raising taxes to finance the war and frustrate inflation, Johnson took the politically easy way out, left it up to Martin's Federal Reserve Board, and through it U.S. bankers, to crimp the nation's credit. The irony is that Johnson's party lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Year of Tight Money And Where It Will Lead | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Only Harvard and other universities, acting together, can apply the pressure on the agencies and in Congress that will get effort reporting rolled back. They are, from all indications, about to try. If they fail this time, or accept another weak compromise, effort reporting is probably here to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Effort Reports | 12/21/1966 | See Source »

Defense, the weak spot Saturday, may still be below par if Don Grimble, who must protect his bashed nose, can't play. Tag Demment would fill in for Grimble, with the possibility that Smith might shift back. In that case, sophomore Chip Otness would join the first line...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Tackles the East's Best In League Contest at Cornell Tonight | 12/20/1966 | See Source »

Probably the failings in Moss's performance derive from his also being the director, and the weak elements in his direction from his also being the star. The effect, however, is only to alter the play, not to cripple...

Author: By Jim Lardner, | Title: Goat Island | 12/10/1966 | See Source »

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