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Then on Jan. 17 President Carter stepped into the legislative process. He asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to delay consideration of a rule that would allow the postal bill to come to the floor for a vote. This is a highly unusual attempt by the White House to prevent congressional deliberation of an important national question...
...September, after delaying our final consideration of the bill for a considerable time to accommodate Administration spokesmen, the OMB testified in opposition to several major aspects of the bill. Since then, there has been no attempt to tell us what the Administration...
Among Mao Tse-tung's most famous sayings is, "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Mao's successors now realize that one kind of power China needs most flows from the end of a pipeline. In an attempt to increase oil output and hence speed the country's economic development, 16 Chinese petroleum experts, led by Sun Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet...
...attempt to weed out the few hangers-on, the rule change penalizes many still competent golfers. And in the future, it could deny fans the thrill of watching Snead's flawless swing or Boros' stylish shotmaking. Gone too would be the joy simply of seeing a Gene Sarazen stride across a golf course...
Though the case of Jonathan W. Lubell's rejection from the review has been discussed by review boards in the past, this is the first year the review will officially attempt to rectify the decision of the 1954 board...