TILTING AT WINDMILLS

...Department chairmen report that doctoral candidates are increasingly shunning longshot thesis projects in favor of safe and sure problems...

...One of the craziest bills to be proposed in recent years is the one to give the airlines $4 billion to finance the acquisition of new planes that will comply with noise regulations...

...Then he nodded, turned to go, and said, ‘Walnuts.’ ” Senator Alan Cranston is the winemakers’ friend...

...And the airlines are making money these days and don’t need help...

...Daniel Greenberg, the science writer, has raised a troubling issue...

...Registration has been required by law since 1933...

...w e were wrong-that is those of us who had thought that one of the great outrages of the federal bureaucracy, the annual awarding of “merit” pay increases to over 99 per cent of eligible federal employees, would be stopped (at least for GS-13s and above) by the new civil service law...

...The Army is said to lack the quantity or quality of officers needed to develop automated tactical systems, while the Navy’s management cannot effectively administer data processing facilities despite the fact that most Naval functions depend on data processing...

...The bureau receives and files their registration forms...

...Nancy Snider (see “Letters,” p. 4) seems to think that the future of voluntarism is tied to the willingness of women to be economic slaves...

...No one has ever been prosecuted for failing to register, and no information in the form has ever led to an investigation...

...In other words, the hospital knows that its rooms will not be vacated at 1Oa.m...

...The Office of General Counsel thinks it is a requirement of the regulatory office and the regulatory people think it is a requirement of the criminal enforcement branch which, in turn, is silent on the question, but when pressed will admit, informally, that the notion originated many years ago with two officials, long since retired...

...By and large,” he says, “science is a shrinking enterprise on the American industrial scene, whereas in West Germany and Japan, it’s coming up fast...

...if the patients think their insurance will pay for it...

...The second major source of volunteers I see is older people-again men and women-who have finished rearing their children and no longer have that fiscal burden...

...All of us who favor a national health service should take a closer look at the case of St...

...At the same time, the government is spending tens of millions of dollars on a subway system for the District, designed to get these same employees not to drive to work...

...Black people don’t go to ball games, but they’ll fill up a wrestling ring and put up such a chant it’ll scare you to death...

...Elizabeth’s patients...

...Morris had written a book advocating such things as gun control and the decriminalization of victimless crimes so that law enforcement officers could concentrate on violent crime and stop chasing vagrants, drunks, gamblers, and homosexuals...

...It is operated by HEW, and it is a disaster, having lost its accreditation in 1975 because of numerous deficiencies in the quality of the care it was providing...

...The unattractive side of democracy was never better illustrated than in the recent Senate hearings on the confirmation of Norval Morris as head of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration...

...Charles Peters...

...We came here because you’ve got good, hard-working white people here...

...d i s c h a r g e t i m e . An additional charge will be made after 10 a.m...

...They have until 1985 to do it...

...referred to the ‘great people of Israel’in a toast to Anwar Sadat...

...How long did it take you to make this?’ he politely asked the craftsman...

...Here, then, we have in capsule form a large part of the explanation for our inflated health costs...

...A decrease in income tax cannot be called one of the classic weapons against inflation, and what will happen because of the increase in social security payroll tax...

...He also says, “The scarcity economy in academic science has spawned a spirit of caution among young researchers anxious to make their mark...

...The government subsidizes the parking of tens of thousands of its employees in the District of Columbia...

...I hope you can forgive me for it,” he said, adding that, if confirmed, he might impose “a moratorium on the greater spread of my views...

...On the back of the door was the sign: Please arrange to vacate your room by 10 a.m...

...The bureau is now willing to forego registration of home winemakers but wants to register home beer brewers instead...

...So, as Rep...

...They need new aircraft anyway because many of their present planes are old and inefficient...

...He reports: “No one speaking for BATF or Treasury can say definitely and convincingly why it is necessary to require home alcoholic beverage makers to r e g i s t e r with the government...

...At a time when we’re threatened by double-digit inflation, we have a Congress that has cut income taxes but has left on the books the massive increase in the social security tax scheduled for January...

...He was behind the attempt to get a tax break for the Gallo family...

...According to Joseph Young, the authoritative civil service columnist of The Washington Star, “Civil Service Commission officials say that federal employees in grades below GS-13 as well as professionals above will continue to receive virtually automatic in-step pay raises...

...A task force that is taking a look at the government’s use of computers has concluded, according to Brad Schultz of Computerworld, that “the nation’s security is jeopardized by the waste, inefficiency, and unreliability” of the data processing facilities in the Department of Defense...

...Griffith said that he decided to move the Twins to Minnesota from Washington, D.C...

...In our January 1978 issue, Michael Nelson, after interviewing people in three small t o w n s , w r o t e t h a t “ p o p u l a r dissatisfaction with government stems from its failure to deliver on promised services,” not from dissatisfaction with government itself...

...It’s unbelievable...

...Within the next week came the news of the Klan revival in Alabama and of Calvin Griffith’s remarks in Minnesota...

...Businesses will view it, as they always have done, as an added cost of labor and pass it on to the consumer in the form of higher prices...

...Nevertheless, during the last year many of the incidents seemed to involve a bit more than a somewhat awkward man who frequently failed to say the right thing...

...The task force found that no individual in the Navy “is even cognizant of all computer-related activities and costs...

...Tilting at Windmills ceremonies...

...pronounced ‘holocaust’ as ‘holy coast.’ Perhaps the single best one came at a White House breakfast, when he announced that Daniel Moynihan’s successor at the U.N...

...i n t r o d u c e d Elliot Richardson as ‘Elliot Roosevelt...

...Most Air Force computer sites are vulnerable to nuclear attack or sabotage, the task force found...

...L a s t month I was bragging about the progress we had made in eliminating racial hatred from American life...

...praised the ‘ethnic of honest work’ in New Hampshire...

...Clerks read them to see that the proper boxes are checked...

...This charge is not covered by insurance...

...So Cranston has extended his friendship to the home brewer and asked the bureau and its parent, the Treasury Department, why...

...In a recent column, William Safire noted that the free parking space he had when he worked at the White House was worth $80 a month...

...The government has now given up part of the battle and has signed an agreement with Georgetown University Medical School providing for the school to assume responsibilty for the physical health care of St...

...I was in the hospital last month...

...This tends to encourage these employees to drive to work...

...He was not alone...

...Under harsh questioning by Senators Helms, Hatch, and Thurmond, Morris explained, according to Charles Babcock of The Washington Post, that his advocacy of “domestic disarmament” referred only to handguns, that his views had been “utopian,” “rather science fiction,” “stupid simplification,” and “inept overstatement...

...But the craziest thing about the bill is that it makes the amount of aid each airline receives dependent on its ticket revenues...

...The airlines have known about the need to comply since 1969...

...I see the major source of volunteers as young people-men as well as women-in their twenties, before they have c h i l d r e n a n d t h e f i n a n c i a l responsibilities that children involve...

...Greenberg attributes part of the problem to the priority American industry is giving to research that promises short-term payoffs...

...Two trusted sources of my own confirm what Computerworld says about the Navy, so I suspect it is right about the other services as well...

...It’s called The Complete Woman Runner...

...Nixon, so the story goes, stopped the motorcade, stepped out, and asked the writhing trooper, ‘How do you like your work?’ ” “Then there was the artisan who brought a nailless, intricately constructed, hand-carved chair to the White House...

...in 1961 “when I found out you only had 15,000 blacks here...

...1337, a bill that will repeal the requirement that home winemakers register with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and F i r e a r m s , as approximately 20,000 citizens do annually...

...During a photo session, for instance, he asked the assembled newsmen if they had noticed that his face was somewhat puffy and his eyes red and swollen...

...But don’t leap to the conclusion that he gives preferential treatment only to the rich...

...Nothing else is done...

...The form is stamped and a copy is sent to the home winemaker...

...In October, The Washington Post, after surveying 1,756 people throughout the country found the same thing...

...I still think things are much better than they were 15 or 20 years ago, but in case you missed the Griffith statement, it follows as a reminder of the way almost all of us used to think...

...The inevitable book of the year is in the schedule of World Publications...

...Nixon sat in it, it collapsed, and he fell on the floor...

...will follow the same policy of challenging some of the Third and Fourth World powers, calling a spade a spade.’” “A state trooper escorting a motorcade had lost control of his bike and was thrown, the bike falling across his legs and breaking one of them...

...Elizabeth’s, the mental hospital in the District of Columbia...

...Richard Gephardt has pointed out, airlines would receive the most aid during their periods of highest profits...

...There is only one shot of a great catch and one shot of a great run, but there are a dozen shots of men doing violence to other men, including one of a player stamping his foot into an opponent’s back in a way presumably intended to thrill the audience with visions of a fractured spine...

...People will be careless about expense as long as it is covered by insurance, so the hospitals and doctors can charge pretty much what they want to charge...

...1 have a weakness for Nixon and Ford stories of the following kind-these are from Fall in and Cheer, a forthcoming book by Nixon-Ford speechwriter, John R. Coyne, Jr.: “Ford’s problems with words were to become legendary, as when he mentioned the disease ‘sickle cell Armenia...

...He is also a friend of the home winemaker and a supporter of H.R...