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...spending is not only the main cause of inflation, which he feels is the nation's primary economic problem, but is also a trend that could eventually alter the American free enterprise system beyond recognition. The President says he aims to balance the budget in fiscal 1979, a feat that is probably impossible...
...faction" that would attempt, in violation of party unity, to seize power for itself. When Mao became critically ill, said the editorial, the radicals' "attacks on the party became more frantic and their attempts to usurp the position of the supreme leaders more hurried." Thus Hua's feat of "smashing their plot" saved "the revolution and the party...
...things they intended to say no matter how a question was put; they were, until the last and best debate, often demeaningly petty; they felt free to parrot lines they had used many times before, and as a substitute for argument they regurgitated mouthfuls of numbers that were a feat of memory in an absence of thought. Nonetheless the candidates had to respond to questions they would have preferred to avoid...
Impressive Feat. At week's end, a shadow was cast on the settlement when five black African nations rejected it, saying that acceptance would, in effect, legalize "colonialist and racist structures of power." The presidents of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola and Botswana called instead for Britain to convene a constitutional convention outside of Rhodesia. Still, the U.S. State Department seemed unconcerned, saying that the five nations had apparently accepted "the essentials" of the agreement...
Crimson faithful were reminded of this last spring when the now Cincinnati Bengal returned to Cambridge for the day. McInally spent the better part of an afternoon kicking a volleyball over the Lowell House tower into the courtyard, retrieving it, and then repeating the feat. Kicking a volleyball over the Lowell tower is no easy task (next time you pass Lowell, stand by the tower's base and look up). But then, who would want to spend a spring afternoon kicking a leather ball over Lowell...