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...obvious cure for such real and apparent abuses is to consider the election of a President a public responsibility to be financed from public funds. That is the major provision in a campaign-spending reform bill agreed upon last week by House-Senate conferees after months of backstage wrangling in both chambers. The bill does not apply the same funding principles, however, to elections for Senators and Congressmen...
...works by correcting an imbalance of Yin, the female element, and Yang, the male element. These traditionalists say there is an invisible system of meridians in the body and along each meridian there is a series of acupuncture points--supposedly 300 in all--which, when pierced correctly, can cure an illness...
President Ford says that he is determined to cure the nation's economic headache, and to his credit, he concedes that the doctoring will be long and painful. At his first presidential press conference last week, Ford once again declared that inflation is the nation's primary problem-or, in his metaphor, "public enemy No. 1." He vowed to make a start on fighting it by cutting at least $5.5 billion out of the federal budget for fiscal 1975, now in its third month. Though he earlier had talked against "unwarranted" cuts in military spending, he asserted this...
...burdened by the comparison. Finally he had to get away from it all and, still in his 30s, exiled himself to a life of teaching and conducting in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lvov. He died at 53 in Karlsbad, where he had gone to take the cure. In death as in life, he was proof of the words that would later be uttered by Richard Wagner's sole male heir, Siegfried: "You don't know how difficult it is being the son of a giant...
...ritual sacrifice, embodying all the less reputable aspects of [America's] rumbustious democracy. Even the festering remains of the Viet Nam hangover are included in the general exorcism, despite the fact that in this case it was Mr. Nixon who was the doctor who brought about the cure...