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Even before the latest tax cuts, a Brookings Institution study by former Budget Director Charles Schultze revealed that no money would be available for new national needs until 1975 at the earliest. Schultze reckoned that between 1972 and 1976 expenditures for existing programs alone would go up by $55 billion. Starts on proposed new projects, including family assistance and revenue sharing, would add another $11 billion. By 1976, Schultze now figures, less than 1% of the G.N.P. -about $10 billion-would be on tap for new projects. Much of this money could be swallowed up by a national health insurance...
...question has long troubled biblical scholars, and today it is arising anew in learned conferences and treatises. The scholars assume that the earliest Gospel is the most authentic version of what Jesus actually said and did. Thus the question of accuracy could be at least partly answered if they could decide how, and in what order, the four evangelists came to set down their stories. A solution would have a vital bearing not only on Bethlehem's shepherds and angels, but on more fundamental Christian beliefs and attitudes...
Pain into Wood. In the days of its prosperity, Zoutleeuw could afford the best artists available, and drew them from centers like Louvain, Antwerp and Brussels. The earliest major piece in the church, a 12th century Crucifixion carved in lindenwood, has all the pathos of a spiritualized image discovering the resistances of the body: the long oval face, the crudely gouged hair, the hacked spear wound and the thin, knob-bled torso almost physically displace the pain of nailed flesh into the pain of wood attacked by a chisel...
Ashbrook, who has represented Ohio's rural 17th district for six terms, has been part of the conservative pantheon since 1964, when he was one of Barry Goldwater's earliest boosters. Though he has not firmly decided to run, he would plainly relish setting out on what he calls "a small Paul Revere ride" through New Hampshire, Florida and perhaps other primary states. But why would Bill Buckley's group choose an unknown to sound the conservatives' alarm? They had little choice. Quietly, Nixon has already won pledges of allegiance from all the big guns...
...fact, free trade as an official U.S. policy is a relatively new phenomenon. One of the earliest bills considered by the U.S. Congress was a tariff act that was passed on July 4, 1789. In 1828, Congress sharply increased the rates via a law that was labeled by cotton-exporting Southerners and Western farmers a "tariff of abominations." During the post-Civil War era, tariff rates were generally kept high by Republicans. The G.O.P. policy culminated in the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, which set off an international trade war that deepened the world Depression. Only in 1934, when...