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...correct in calculating that even a creeping economic recovery will reduce payments for unemployment compensation and farm-price supports by $15 billion. That drop is not included in the $32 billion of expenditure savings because it is supposed to be automatic, but it is the biggest deficit-reducing item in the whole budget...
Still, many items on the wish lists are hardly luxuries. Oregon City is asking for a new fire engine ($120,000), an air-operated rescue tool to help fire fighters pry open mangled or burning automobiles ($7,000), a hydrocarbon meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item...
Like the bathtub, a telephone can be found in nearly every American home, and, until now, it has been equally taken for granted. Yet, all of a sudden, consumers are being urged to jettison their old view of the phone as a utilitarian item and look at it as a fancy new entry on a shopping list. Local Bell System companies, as well as AT&T's brand-new baby, American Bell Inc., are beseeching customers to buy telephones instead of leasing them, and even to plug more of them into their homes. Department, specialty and discount stores...
Before Pazner's announcement, Lebanese press report said the main item in the "composite agenda" proposed by Habib's associate Morris Draper was ending the state of war between Israel and Lebanon which the cortically has existed since the armistice that ended the 1949 Arab-Israel...
Losing "Doonesbury" is different. The 20-second pause for the morning's stop was not an item on anyone's schedule it was part of the metabolism. There was a difference between days when you read "Doonesbury" and days when you didn't just like the difference between days when the digestive system functions well and the days when it doesn't. The chuckle that came at the fourth-frame punchline could suffuse the whole day: you'd repeat the words over lunch and find yourself smiling at them over dinner. How can you compensate for that, short of synthesizing...