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...that is getting done on Capitol Hill, the rest of Congress might as well do the same. When the Congress did act, all too often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...
...performance. Entwistle grim and impassive. Moon, mouth open looking happily about. Townshend concentrates hard but is not afraid to jerk and shudder with his arms and legs when he feels the will of the music. Daltrey convulsing. Townshend splits his guitar with one axe blow. Moon when drunk, as tonight personally supervises the destruction of his drums. Why do they...
...submit that the "important question" is not, as you would have it, "What is Styron's own attitude on racial questions?" Unless we are prepared to return to the Harriet Beecher Stowe school of social axe grinding, we had best leave off speculating on authorial politics and simply judge novels as good...
...years, the council minority led by Crane sniped away at DeGuglielmo's supporters. In last November's election, their efforts were rewarded, two of the City Manager's five votes on the council failed to gain re-election. After that, it was only a matter of time until the axe fell. It fell only ten days after the new council took office. By the end of the month, Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy moved into the manager's first floor office in City Hall, to serve until the council found a new permanent manager...
...rural South, McGill admits, has come along much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...