■ A few year-enders: Ireland has been proclaimed the “most prudish” nation in Europe by Vision Magazine, with Sweden the least. Spain and Portugal are next most prudish, Denmark next most least. . . . Timothy Leary was on the road—the Swiss government said he had to leave by Jan. 1. . . . The art world reports the price of the more popular artists was up 40 per cent in 1972 over 1970, with Japanese buyers doing the most to push those prices up. . . . Over 198 million tourists in 1972 spent between $24 and $25 billion on their travels. . . . Nearly 57,000 Americans died in traffic accidents, up from 56,000 in 1971 but 1.25 trillion miles were traveled, an increase of 5 per cent. . . . Harvard was in a dither: The Economics Department had refused to grant tenure to Associate Professor Samuel Bowles, the Marxist son of former ambassador to India and senator from Connecticut Chester Bowles. Said Prof. James Duesenberry, Chairman of the Economics Department, in defense of the move, “It’s hard to find anyone [around here] who you would consider a reactionary.” . . . Professor Herbert Katzenstein of the City College of New York, who has been doing surveys on CCNY graduates for years, reports that in the class of 1970 (the latest polled) male black graduates got better first jobs at higher initial salaries than their white counterparts. . . . The AP rundown of the parties of the Left and how they did in the presidential election shows: First Dr. Benjamin Spock of the People’s Party, 78,000 votes; second Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist) 65,000; third Louis Fisher, Socialist Labor Party, 53,000; fourth Gus Hall, CPUSA, 25,000 votes. Altogether they got one-fourth as many votes as John Schmitz of the rightist American Party. . . . George Bush, in farewell appraisal of 27th General Assembly of the United Nations, said the only thing it accomplished that favored America was slicing the U.S. contribution from 31.5 to 25 per cent of the annual budget. . . . And Jan. 1, 1973, saw the retirement of conservative Chicago Tribune Washington correspondent and columnist Willard Edwards, after 51 years as an active newsman. The Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach was his twentieth national convention. (Edwards is the father of Lee Edwards who recently started the Right Report, a biweekly newsletter about goings-on on the Right.)
Norris, Vancouver Sun Ben Roth Agency
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