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Accordingly, he was not afraid of death and lived long and happily. He would have eaten cyclamates without a qualm, but he was not concerned about being fat either. And so, puffing gently at his pipe and sipping his whisky, he lived on, chatting with other old men, much too contented...
...increase in Social Security benefits (TIME, Dec. 26). The Treasury estimates that the new legislation will increase federal revenues by $3.7 billion in the first half of 1970 and by $2.7 billion in the fiscal year that begins July 1. But Nixon fears that the additional revenues will be eaten away by overly generous congressional appropriations, by the Social Security hike and by a continued rise in the Government's fixed costs. He warned that an inflationary deficit in the federal budget now "would be irresponsible and intolerable." For the coming fiscal year beginning July 1, Nixon added...
...response to a four-meal "peace fast" proposed by the Harvard Moratorium Committee for December 12 and 13, University officials have issued an unprecedented offer for rebates on meals not eaten in the University dining halls...
...SECOND point of this policy- the reorganization of local government- might even do more to aggravate stolidly Republican suburbia. Moynihan correctly calls urban government "fragmented and obsolescent." The flight of both industry and middle class to the suburbs has eaten away at the urban tax base. This smaller tax base must simultaneously finance more and more government services for the outcast population left behind...
...action slackened up long enough for the demonstrators to start thinking about their stomachs instead of their heads. Hundreds of people kept a constant supply of food and water flowing to the front until everyone had eaten his fill. But even after the hunger and thirst had been satiated, the supply line continued to bring food as if life were indeed dependent upon it. The fact that an unorganized group which had somehowcome together in a common cause was able to feed itself, set up lines of communication, muster lawyers and doctors to the scene was a source...