STEWART ALSOP
The news media lost a great reporter when Stewart Alsop recently succumbed to leukemia. I phoned him a couple of years ago and requested an interview. He turned…
Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
What’s Going On In Congress? — June 1974
KENNEDY HEALTH PLAN
The best hospitals and the best doctors are not in Russia, England or any country which has socialized medicine. People who need difficult operations don’t go to Europe…
CAMPAIGN FINANCING
Some months ago, Common Cause came out with a report on political campaigns which concluded that the two parties which compete in every Congressional election are not, contrary…
THE PSRO ACT
The secret activities of the “plumbers” in breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist have been almost universally condemned. But if the “plumbers” had delayed their raid…
MORAL EDUCATION NEEDED
The United States spends more per student on education than any other nation. Our magnificent education facilities, school buildings, gymnasiums, laboratories, college campuses, endowments and scholarships are the…
POLICY TOWARD CASTRO
For the past several weeks, the Spanish-language press in the United States has been buzzing with speculation and comment about a murder near Miami which, strangely, has gone…
THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Vice President Gerald Ford recently endorsed high interest rates at a bankers’ meeting at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. He said that the fight against inflation “requires a restrictive…
LAND USE PLANNING ACT
The largest single investment the average individual makes in a lifetime is usually a home to live in. The right to buy, use, enjoy, sell, or leave this…
COMPUTERS
Computers are an American invention, and we have stayed far ahead of the rest of the world in their development and production. Our second, third and fourth generation…