Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaving Hartford's Civic Center, where Gerald Ford had just addressed a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, a presidential motorcade of seven cars headed fast for Bradley International Airport. The procession was led by four Connecticut state police cruisers, none sounding sirens or flashing emergency lights. Worse, the cars were spaced so far apart that the President's Lincoln limousine was about five seconds behind the cruisers when it approached an intersection just three blocks from the civic center...
Further out of town this week is none other than the great drummer Roy Haynes, playing through this weekend with his sextet and Sandy's in Beverly. I'll never forget reading Frank Kofksy's liner notes on Coltrane's Selflessness album--that's the one with the fast version of My Favorite Things on side two. Roy Haynes was substituting for Coltrane's regular man, Elvin Jones, doing what I think was the finest drum work on any of the MFT cuts that Trane recorded. But in the liner notes, usually reserved for bubbling praise, Kofsky came down hard...
Revenues are growing but not as fast as costs. Officials have eliminated some services, such as trimming residents' trees, and postponed purchases of fire-fighting and recreational equipment. They also have cut 213 jobs through attrition this year, plan to abolish as many in 1976, and have held pay increases to 5%. Disgruntled policemen responded by hiring the Teamsters for $200,000 to represent them in contract negotiations starting next spring. Rather than increase property taxes next year, city officials are considering imposing an income...
Ford had planned to follow tradition and unwrap his tax proposals in his State of the Union address in January But that timetable was torn up last week, when Democratic Congressman Al Ullman's Ways and Means Committee seemed to be making fast progress on a complicated package of tax reforms. Beyond revising the tax laws, Ullman expected to extend most provisions of the "temporary" tax cut that had been enacted earlier this year to spur the lagging economy. These lower rates are scheduled to expire on Jan. 1, and without action before then, withholding rates will revert...
...crossing of the Suez Canal by Egyptian troops. In other years, such an observance would have been the occasion for anti-Zionist rhetoric. This year the mood was celebratory-partly because it coincided with the religious festival of 'Id el Fitr, when Moslems end their month-long Ramadan fast...