Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voices and egos are reduced in such a setting. Thoughts are proffered with some reluctance. Yet the talk in this small place shows that the tax revolt is firmly rooted. Here is a clear vestige of the California-contrived Laffer Curve (the correlation between rising taxes and falling incentive). The ideas of Harvard's Samuel Beer are on many people's minds-not under Beer's label but as an outcropping of a deep vein of common sense. Beer believes that the Government is now so big and so oriented toward self-preservation that...
...serious doubts about whether participating in this trial is advisable. If we are not able to defend ourselves, then the aim of this trial is not justice. There is some obscure political purpose." U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon told U.S. correspondents in Moscow that he thought the Soviet intent was clear: "This is an effort to get a message across to you people that unless you confine your quotations to official Soviet sources, you run a risk of being charged with slander...
...side for the first time since Watergate, munching peanuts and hot dogs as the Angels took on the Kansas City Royals at Anaheim Stadium. Playing good sport, Nixon even gave a short State of the Game address on a local radio show, during which he made perfectly clear that Sandy Koufax was "the world's best pitcher" and Ted Williams "could hit a ball anywhere." After the game, Nixon obligingly autographed baseballs for the fans-and consoled his host. Final score...
...career he went on straight salary, * spurning the unaudited "love offerings" that used to provide income for traveling evangelists. But the Graham operation is so large and visible that there has always been intense curiosity about its finances. Lately that curiosity has deepened into outright suspicion, and to clear the air Graham's Minneapolis headquarters has issued its first full public report on finances...
What had happened slowly became clear. The war was the first cause. If the Japanese had not made war, then the Chinese would not have cut the dikes of the Yellow River to stop them by switching the river's course. Then, perhaps, the ecology of North China would not have changed. Or, perhaps, food might have been packed in from food-surplus areas. But in addition to the war had been the drought. That was nature's guilt. At this point, men had become guilty-either for what they did or failed...