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...full legal powers" to keep the budget under $250 billion. For once, Nixon acted quickly on a campaign promise. Four days after his Nassau speech, Nixon vetoed nine bills, including the entire Department of Health Education and Welfare and Department of Labor appropriations. Also vetoed on the Nixon "budget-breaker" list were appropriations for: flood control projects; improved burial and cemetary benefits for veterans; expanded health care facilities at Veterans Administration Hospitals; vocational rehabilitation programs for people so handicapped that they cannot work; and public works projects to bring jobs to low income areas and areas with severe unemployment...
...established himself as varsity caliber and will be a help to the team." He made it to the finals, but lost to the class of the field, Bunis of Columbia. Barnaby said Harvard's other B representative. Tom Loring, "gave a helluva match," but lost in a tie breaker...
Displaying a devastating assortment of backhand shots, unseeded Lutz vanquished some formidable opponents. He knocked out top-seeded John Newcombe of Australia in the first round, scoring the final point in a tense tie breaker with typically audacious anticipation of a cross-court drive. "Fortune favors daring," Lutz later explained. Lutz's other victims, in order, were New Zealander Brian Fairlie, Aussie Laver, South African Cliff Drysdale and Dutchman Tom Okker. Okker was out-hustled in the final by Lutz, who earned $10,000 for his 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 triumph...
Against the Vassar team of Gerrity and Rasmussen, Stuart and Morgan had to win the second set in a tie-breaker, 7-6, after having handily won the first set, 6-3. In the semi-finals match, the 'Cliffe team took on the top-seeded duo of Havemeyer and Straus of Yale. The match lasted nearly two and a half hours, with the Cliffies scoring an upset victory...
...Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they were bringing with them. Later, having nearly obscured their original check lists with fresh flight data radioed by Houston, Duke and Young apparently overlooked one item and forgot to close a circuit breaker in Orion. Result: when the Lunar Module was finally cast loose from the mother ship, its computer could not fire its small thruster rockets. Thus, Orion could not be sent crashing back onto the moon's surface, where telling shock waves from its impact were to have been recorded...