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...Monsignor O'Brien highway, one of the nearby streets police closed off, only an occasional emergency vehicle sirened by, heading toward the source of the white cloud...
...committee proposed a long list of specific cuts. Among them: $1.7 billion in revenue-sharing money for states, $1 billion in antirecession aid to cities, $1.4 billion to be whacked from defense spending. Lesser but significant reductions would be made in a wide variety of highway, youth employment and health programs and in payments to federal retirees. In a show of self-sacrifice, the committee even suggested delaying cost of living pay increases for Congressmen. In addition, Giaimo proposed $3.5 billion in new taxes, to be chosen by the House Ways and Means Committee from a "laundry list" of possible...
...shipping its wastes by rail and pipeline to a huge inland basin. There the tailings will be deposited and kept covered under 10 ft. of water so that the fiber dust cannot escape. Speaking about his town, Silver Bay's Mayor Robert Kind, an officer in the state highway patrol, says happily: "Now I think we are going to hold...
...activities, including, said Carter, "good, worthwhile programs-programs which I support very strongly." Exact proposals will not be submitted to Congress until the end of the month, but the activities known to be due for a slash include revenue sharing for states and cities, job-training programs, airport and highway construction, federal aid to education, health research. There will be a freeze on federal hiring, and the number of federal employees will drop 20,000 by next October. Saturday mail deliveries may well be stopped. Carter, who had pledged in his January State of the Union message to resist...
...began airhitching, the last leg of a summer hitching to-fro' across America, by turning my back on I-90 and following the signs for the Billings, Montana airport. I had grown tired of hitching on a ramrod highway flopped down in dusty desolation and sustaining tin-diner towns. The west's rusticity and bo-hunk spirit sickened me. Two months on a ranch splitting wood, driving cattle, digging ditches, setting up fenceline, chewing tobacco, chasing chickens and pigs, and slaughtering sheep had sapped my pioneering, yahoo spirit. I longed for the sophisticated East, the blue rhapsody of New York...