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Rougemont, Switzerland, March 17— It sometimes happens—have you noticed?—that a subject gets so sliced up, one despairs of trying to pick up a piece of it that will not fragment: and, rather than start again from scratch, the temptation is to give up. It is so, for instance, with the disarmament proposals. And it is so with the revenue-sharing business. At this point so many people have been heard on the subject, often saying contradictory things, one has the feeling that the public simply turns the dial when the subject comes up, like the English and the Common Market.

Well, some recent figures are in front of me, from which, without very much coaxing, it appears to me that a story line emerges. First, one or two surprises—to stimulate the mind, and to break up the stereotypes. New York is the richest (highest per capita income) state in the union, right? Wrong. Connecticut is. Alaska is one of the poorest, right? It is the second richest; Nevada is third, and only then New York.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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Rougemont, Switzerland, March 17— It sometimes happens—have you noticed?—that a subject gets so sliced up, one despairs of trying to pick up a piece of it that will not fragment: and, rather than start again from scratch, the temptation is to give up. It is so, for instance, with the disarmament proposals. And it is so with the revenue-sharing business. At this point so many people have been heard on the subject, often saying contradictory things, one has the feeling that the public simply turns the dial when the subject comes up, like the English and the Common Market.

Well, some recent figures are in front of me, from which, without very much coaxing, it appears to me that a story line emerges. First, one or two surprises—to stimulate the mind, and to break up the stereotypes. New York is the richest (highest per capita income) state in the union, right? Wrong. Connecticut is. Alaska is one of the poorest, right? It is the second richest; Nevada is third, and only then New York.