Vice President Nelson Rockefeller recently made a foray into the Deep South prospecting for fri·ends who might come in handy dur ing the campaign of 1976. Nelson Rockefeller is a good example of a Number Two who is still trying harder, and he knew … [Read more...] about Trouble With Conservatives
Public Health Problems
From the time John Rolfe first sent tobacco to England in the 17th century until recent years, to smoke or not to smoke was considered a matter of personal choice. As the silent, suffering majority, at long last, is asserting its right to breathe … [Read more...] about Public Health Problems
Investment Capital
Unemployment in the United States today is the highest in 35 years. There is no way the Federal Government can provide any significant number of the jobs needed, and the current trauma in New York City shows that we cannot look to states or cities … [Read more...] about Investment Capital
Brazil & Japan
First question: What is the principal export product of Brazil? If your answer was coffee, you are wrong. All the geography books and encyclopedias are now obsolete. This year, coffee dropped to second place b hind the giant Brazilian crop of … [Read more...] about Brazil & Japan
Has Education Lost Its Purpose? — September 1975
Child Services Bill
In a moment of rare candor, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey once called the teachers' lobby the most powerful single lobby in the United States. It may not be that powerful, but it certainly is resourceful. It has just devised a plan for … [Read more...] about Child Services Bill
Portugal & Angola
It seems to be a reliable rule of thumb that the intensity of one's anti-Communism increases the closer one approaches the reality of Communist rule. Conversely, acceptance of the delusions of detente increases the farther one is removed from the … [Read more...] about Portugal & Angola
Streetcars and Buses
One of the hit tunes from Judy Garland's movie "Meet Me In St. Louis" was "The Trolley Song." "Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley." About the time that movie was released in the 1940s, there was a drive to eliminate streetcars for urban … [Read more...] about Streetcars and Buses
Socialized Medicine
"Those who warm themselves at the gates of Hell will never go there" is an old saying that warns us to contemplate the discomfort of a fiery eternity before we indulge in the tempting pleasures of the moment. The same lesson is just as applicable to … [Read more...] about Socialized Medicine
Electoral College
The Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments recently approved a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would eliminate the Electoral College and replace it with a direct popular national election in which the U.S. President would … [Read more...] about Electoral College
