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GILL APPEARS to have been a whirlwind of activity during those years. She ran for City Council in 1969, and appeared before it often to testify about Cambridge housing conditions. She once slept out on the City Hall lawn as part of her continuing protest...
Just a Start. Within 30 minutes of his swearing-in ceremony, Whitlam set the whirlwind tone for a new, independent-minded Australia by announcing the abolition of the military draft, introduced in 1964 to supply Australian troops for the war in Viet Nam. That was just a start. In foreign affairs, a Cabinet portfolio that he gave himself, Whitlam quickly took a whole series of moves to make Australia's stance "less militarily oriented and not open to suggestions of racism...
...Your article "REAPing a Budgetary Whirlwind" [Feb. 5] states that few urban Americans have ever heard of REAP, Rural Environmental Assistance Program, which you describe as a "classic case of an originally worthwhile program that has outlived its usefulness." I do not believe that your attempt to acquaint the American public with REAP reflects our experience with the program in Nebraska...
...Commission, G. Bradford Cook would seem to be in an uncomfortable spotlight. At 35, he is the youngest man ever to head the agency, he is almost unknown among the Wall Streeters he will regulate-and he has one of the toughest acts in Washington to follow. In a whirlwind 22 months in office, his predecessor, William J. Casey, began more far-reaching reforms of the securities industry than at almost any time in the SEC's 38-year history. To mention only two, brokers who had always charged commissions fixed by stock exchanges were forced to negotiate rates...
...when the U.S. did just that by cutting the value of the once almighty dollar another 10%, the step proved to be both internationally popular and politically easy. In contrast with the four months of testy negotiations that were required to swing the 1971 devaluation, only five days of whirlwind conferences were needed to bring about last week's large and surprising reduction-which made a total slash of 17.9% since December 1971. Foreign moneymen agreed with the U.S. view that cutting the dollar once more was the best way to end what had become a new and virulent...