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Instead of favoring fraternal encounter and mutual aid, the city fosters discrimination and indifference. It is the weakest who are victims of dehumanizing living conditions." Cities create a "new proletariat" of the aged, the maladjusted, the handicapped and others on the fringes of society...
...annual rate of 2.4%, down from 3.6% in January; the rise was the smallest since last August. Politically, a tax cut would be even more tempting than usual. The latest polls show Nixon's popularity at a record low, with the performance of the economy his weakest point and persistent unemployment especially dismaying to voters...
Lunch-Hour Reading. While Alabama and Wyoming have the weakest overall legislative systems, other states have even worse specific shortcomings. New Hampshire pays its lawmakers the least: $100 each per year. With 424 seats, it also has the largest and most unwieldy membership. Mississippi has the most committees, 90. In three states-Kansas, Arizona and Nebraska-the law requires that pending bills be read aloud in their entirety to the chambers; few legislators listen and the reading is sometimes done during lunch-hour recesses. The separation of powers is seriously blurred in Georgia, where the lieutenant-governor is a powerful...
...loss to the underdog New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl. This season, transferred to the American Football Conference in the newly reorganized N.F.L., the Colts have had to live with the charge that they sneaked into the playoffs only because they were in the league's weakest division. Even hometown fans seem unimpressed; when the Colts defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 17-0 in the A.F.C. divisional playoff game two weeks ago, there were more than 5,000 empty seats in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Such indignities are not taken lightly by the team. Recalling the loss...
...that President Nixon is considering more raids on North Viet Nam's prison camps [Dec. 7] quite disturbing. Faced with Green Berets on the outside and hostile but unarmed prisoners on the inside, it is only logical to assume that the guards will attack their enemy at his weakest point by eliminating the prisoners. Such a horrible denouement would only serve to spotlight once again the combined brutality and stupidity which is the Viet Nam War. Would the epitaphs of the prisoners read, "We had to destroy them to save them...