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...weakened or eliminated many of the most sweeping proposals. While that backsliding worried TIME's board when it met in Washington last week to assess the tax package and consider the economic outlook (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), members nonetheless endorsed the broad goals of the President's program. Said Walter Heller, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations: "This could well be the most far-reaching tax reform we've ever...
Then the oracle is spoken. That god of all gods, accuweather meteorologist Rich Heller, describes the prevailing weather patterns. As he patiently explains the day in terms of barometric pressure, cool fronts and zonal flows. I feel my blood rising. Finally, I can stand it no longer. "Spring!" I scream as I throw the phone clear across the room in disgust. "Spring!" I scream as my roommate sleepily pokes her head from she bedroom. Still raving, I run from the room. In the distance a neutral voice repeats again and again: "Have a good day, and thank you for calling...
...England weather has played a sadistic trick. For what we have here is a mob of goose bumpy, shivering, bluish victims of spring fever. Poor fools myself included who insist that it is spring just because the calendar tells us that it is April Just the other morning Rich Heller wisely warned us that it was going to be only partly sunny and that although it might be in the 60's inland, those near the coast must grapple with 50 degree weather Sometimes I wonder why anyone would want to be an accuweather meteorologist. Sure...
...uniquely evil. Some, like Singer Joan Baez, denounced the behavior of the new Vietnamese regime. Jane Fonda is an object of special vilification among veterans. Her husband, California Assemblyman Tom Hayden, once a leader of the New Left, admits, "I am not pure. We have, as Joseph Heller says, two lives: the one we live with and the one we learn with. The consensus on the war is still emerging...
TIME's economists were divided on the prospects that Congress will take decisive action against the budget deficit. Heller said he was optimistic because "there is a deep fear and loathing of deficits on Capitol Hill." Feldstein agreed: "Congressmen fear that if the economy goes bad in 1986, and they haven't done anything about the deficit, they are going to be blamed." Greenspan was more skeptical. Said he: "There is a vast, overwhelming philosophical commitment to cut the budget, but when you get to specific votes on specific programs, it is going to be very difficult...