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...recently as November, was now proposing tax cuts totaling $16 billion this year and a record peacetime deficit of $52 billion in the fiscal year that begins this July. Even more remarkable, given the general optimism of past Ford Administration pronouncements on the economy, was the grim and brutally candid set of projections-tucked into the President's 384-page budget -about jobs, prices and profits over the next five years (see box next page...
Although Price feels the need to hold down defense spending and agrees that the military has not always been candid with his committee, he is not likely to go after its budget with a meat cleaver. His statements on cost cutting are always carefully modulated by assertions on behalf of national security. In his only notable break with the military in a 30-year career, he opposed the bombing of Cambodia after the signing of the Viet Nam truce agreement...
Anthony Arlotto, senior tutor of Winthrop House and a member of the Faculty's ad hoc committee on the files law, said at the meeting that reports written on students by their tutors "will probably be less candid...
...bald look, rather passé in politics since the days of Dwight Eisenhower and Speaker Sam Rayburn, has again become topical now that Jerry Ford is Head of State. During his recent senatorial campaign, for example, Utah Republican Senator Jake Garn plastered his state with billboards reading: "Garn-candid. Garn-decisive. Garn-aware. Garn-bald." He won by 25,000 votes. When some of his constituents suggested that he wear a toupee, California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston replied: "If I went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering...
...more candid moments, some baldies confide that all is not Brylcreemless bliss. They are bothered by sunburned scalps and cool breezes. BHMA member Palmer complains that whenever he eats his favorite spicy Mexican food, his bare scalp sweats profusely. Other baldies confess that their billiard-ball crests age them prematurely. Gripes one: "I was the only kid in the third grade who looked like he was in school on the G.I. Bill." But to most men whose hairlines have disappeared, happiness is a bald head. Says Senator Garn: "God has made very few perfect heads. The rest of them...