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...British, who look to the budget for both a review of past economic performance and word of the government's future policies. In too many years since World War II, the budget has brought higher taxes, tighter credit and myriad other measures designed to solve Britain's chronic balance of payments problem. This time Jenkins offered much hope-and some relief. He could well afford what he termed "cautious optimism...
...page report also released findings of a three-year study by the National Institute of Mental Health which concluded that marijuana does not necessarily lead to heroin addiction but that it is a dangerous drug and may cause damage in chronic users...
...unions have continually fought mechanization, and Congress has never provided sufficient funds for it. Rates have been kept relatively low, and Congress has not acted on the Administration's latest request for an increase. This puts the Post Office in the position of seeming to be a chronic debtor. Since 1838, revenue has met costs in only 17 years. The difference comes from the Treasury. Present deficits total $1.5 billion a year...
...endangered, now has more reason to come to the bargaining table. A more remote possibility is that the Communist Chinese, whose foreign policy is no longer distorted by the lunatic frenzies of the Cultural Revolution, might be persuaded to join. Last week's demonstration of Indochina's chronic instability may eventually prove persuasive enough to bring all the nations concerned to the bargaining table. Nothing, in all likelihood, could do more to please Norodom Sihanouk, or Souvanna Phouma, or Richard Nixon...
Next year's freshmen are being chosen this month and the Radcliffe Administration is in the process of reappraising its advisor program. The stumbling block to all proposals is the chronic lack of student enthusiasm about what is being designed for them...