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Early warning signals were flashing last week as Congress prepared to take up the Carter Administration's wide-ranging proposals for keeping the economy humming through the coming fiscal year. Congressional critics have begun to snipe at the President's tax program, even before they get their first...
The movie is as ignorant of film-making niceties as it is of its subject. Com pany C was shot in the flat light one associates with porno films; its often incomprehensible plot contains more credibility gaps than a William West moreland press briefing. Though Furie staged much of the...
The airborne truth squad got off to a false start. Stops in Nashville and Atlanta were scratched because of Hubert Humphrey's death. A storm that dumped 13 inches of snow on Cincinnati forced bypassing that city too. The first stop in the truncated, four-city "citizens' briefing...
Before leaving Washington, Carter tended to some last-minute domestic affairs. He nominated Businessman G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman and promoted James Mclntyre Jr. to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Carter spent most of his time getting ready for his trip...
Long brings some unique gifts to his role. At 59, he has been in the Senate for just under half of his life (29 years) and is a master of its parliamentary maz es. His intellectual powers are impressive ?he can deliver a brilliant 30-minute speech after just...