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...enacted for 1975. All 20 members of Congress's Joint Economic Committee-liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike-have endorsed the idea; a tax-reform bill is due out of the House Ways and Means Committee by Oct. 28. Last week even President Ford apparently climbed aboard the bandwagon. He said that he too would favor tax cuts-if they were tied in some way to reductions in federal spending...
Cassavetes did not skip hot off the pop "victimization" bandwagon, as Kael claims. He's not a John Guillerman or a Mark Robson--the directors of The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, respectively--who each latched on to the season's big destruction bust, star-studding their creations for box office insurance. He just doesn't see films that...
...citizens' voluntary reserve" that would "aid the civil power" against anyone defying the law. That plan sounded all too close to the controversial idea of antistrike forces recently proposed by retired military officers. Labor Home Secretary Roy Jenkins accused the Tories of "climbing onto the pathetic bandwagon of some superannuated colonels." Rippon's "reserve" proved such a touchy idea that Tory Party Chairman William Whitelaw was forced to point out that it was not mentioned in the party manifesto...
...instance, raises only briefly the question of the Intellectual Left's motivation as it gradually got on the bandwagon of dissent in the early 60s. Were these self-proclaimed champions of the nation's moral conscience reacting to a longstanding conviction that U.S. military interference in Indochina was wrong or were they goaded into saving face in light of the increasing protest to American policy that was growing on college campuses? Why had they not come forward when the initial bent of American policy in Vietnam was being openly set by the Kennedy administration? Did it have something...
...UMass two weeks ago when he connected on five of six trips to the plate, including two home runs, three runs scored and seven runs batted in--perhaps the finest single-day output of any Crimson player this year. But LaCivita has been a driving force behind the Crimson bandwagon in every other game as well...