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...President is proposing to shrink the deficit, his new budget is actually far more adventurous than the one he unveiled a year ago. The fiscal-1971 deficit is the unforeseen result of a $20 billion forecasting error; Nixon had originally budgeted a $1.3 billion surplus.* His projections were knocked askew by the recession, which is holding revenues about $8 billion below early estimates and forcing higher spending for such things as unemployment compensation and interest on the national debt. By contrast, the fiscal-1972 deficit will be intentional...
When Reubin Askew was sworn in as Governor of Florida, there was a promise of fair government for both races in his inaugural address. Then Askew turned to problems of tax reform, education, the environment...
Surely this represents a momentarily askew estimate of what Americans most fear in their own lives and families. The relatively sudden passion about the environment seemed to spring from two different sources. On the one hand, it represented the response to a problem which American skills, including technology, might actually solve, unlike the immensely more elusive problems of race prejudice or the war in Viet Nam. On the other hand, it represented a creeping disillusionment with technology, an attempt by individuals to reassert control over machine civilization. In 1970, the abuses were real enough. Last summer the dangers of dirty...
...York Times, which sent the Curtis story out over its wire and then published its own damning editorial. Wolfe repeats the Bernsteins' conspiracy theory explanation, but defaults as a journalist in not investigating the Times' Bernstein pogrom himself.) When word of the party got around, everything suddenly went askew, other stories were cancelled, and the only radical cause left in vogue became the preservation of ocelots and cheetas. In short, the chic had hit the fan. A potential source of funds for the Panther defense disappeared...
...Southern states moved toward moderation on the race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...