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...President is rightly determined that his budget provide generous fuel supplies for an economy that finally seems to be producing more heat. There is more growth and less inflation than in a long time. The fourth-quarter G.N.P. in 1971 rose at the exceptionally brisk annual rate of 6.1%. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, strongly urged the President to keep a heavy foot on the gas pedal for the next six months, and the deficit be damned. Nixon clearly agreed...
...little more than two decades, Puerto Rico has lifted itself from a sleepy agricultural backwater to a modern state brisk with industry, commerce and tourism. Much of the reason for this transformation lies in the historic economic program "Operation Bootstrap," which provided large tax incentives to lure development capital to the island. For all the progress, however, living conditions for many Puerto Ricans remain poor...
...behold, according to TIME'S William Stewart. "There is little direct evidence of the fighting along the main highway from Calcutta to Dacca," he cabled from Dacca last week, "although in some areas there are artillery-shell craters and the blackened skeletons of houses. Local markets do a brisk business in fruit and staple goods, but by Bengali standards many of the villages are all but deserted...
...Killing of Richard III, Robert Farrington is something of a Richardist but more of an entertainer. His hero-modern, brisk, amused-is James Bond in a baldric, a lewd, shrewd "clerk" who undertakes secret missions for the king. Seen through his eyes, Richard comes off as a reasonably decent Renaissance statesman, astute in the chancellery but stupid in the field...
...glossy production numbers, Les Brown's band and a succession of sexy starlets, the F.T.A. has makeshift props and a small combo, and the performers determinedly hide their physical charms most of the time under jeans and baggy sweaters. More important, the Hope show clips along on brisk one-liners spiced with patriotic flourishes. The F.T.A. loosely mixes readings, songs and satirical skits to underline such inflammatory assertions as Jane's: "We must oppose with everything we have those blue-eyed murderers-Nixon, Laird and all the rest of those ethnocentric American white male chauvinists...