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...federal budget; it is obvious that the Government could not spend $4 billion this fiscal year even if Congress were to pass a bill tomorrow, though nearly $1 billion left over from existing appropriations could be spent to fund public-service jobs. But unless the Ford Administration is to abandon its drive to balance the budget it seems obvious that an ambitious program eventually would require either higher taxes or extra-deep cuts in other federal spending. Burns and Brennan have not said how they would arrange the financing, but Senator Percy has tackled the problem. He would close...
Hemispheres is undoubtedly one of the best late-evening dessert handouts in the Square area. Abandon any hopes of staying on your diet and dig into owner Fred Mojavr's homemade ice cream pie. Hopefully the rumor isn't true that the chocolate cheese cake, another Hemispheres specialty, is no longer on the menu. Unfortunately, the rumor is true that the price of all cheesecakes was recently raised...
...Before his first term was out, he had become a national figure for his role in the investigation of the attractive, patrician Alger Hiss as a former Communist courier. The House Un-American Activities Committee was ready to abandon its probe, but Nixon persevered until a plainly damaging case had been made against Hiss, largely on the witness of Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant and enigmatic writer and editor who, before he joined TIME in 1939, had been a Communist for 15 years...
What ever prompted C. S. N. & Y. to abandon such a lucrative musical trust? "We could have made a lot of money in the past four years, but the feeling between us wasn't there," admits Graham Nash, 32. According to Stephen Stills, 29, tumescent egos were responsible. "None of us were willing to give up our identities," he says. "We could have called ourselves the Eternal Spinach, but we used our names instead -it made us the Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith of rock." Crosby once belonged to the Byrds, Nash was a member of the Hollies...
...York Yacht Club, holder of the Cup, is not scheduled to pick an American defender until final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...