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...present, the President draws up his own budget, using the 428-man Office of Management and Budget to do his staff work, and dumps the huge volume into the lap of Congress in January. The document presented by Nixon this year is intimidating: it has 1,071 pages, weighs 2½ Ibs. and calls for spending $304.4 billion. Congress now has the power to revise the President's budget completely, but it lacks a centralized staff to analyze such a massive tome. More important, Congress is simply not organized to consider the proposal as a whole-or to perform...
Last March Wetzel entered his first lap race, the Italian 1000 Kilometers of Vallelunga. Drivers in the field included Mario Andretti...
Formal Protest. The next event produced the high point of the low comedy. At the end of the second lap in the four-lap bicycle race, Buffalo Brave Forward Jim McMillian swung out too far on a turn and clipped Anderson's back tire. McMillian went sprawling onto the track (he was only slightly injured). The chain fell off Anderson's bike, forcing him to retire. Miffed, Anderson marched off to lodge a formal protest that was quickly disallowed...
...Newman has raced "as often as anyone asks me" on amateur cc circuits, but without much success. In October he escaped injury when his souped-up Datsun slammed into a bank during a practice run. He was unlucky in the recent Daytona races; his car overheated in the seventh lap. But Paul is relaxed about his record: "Someone said to me, why don't you enter at Daytona. and I said, why not? I'm a very whimsical person...
...seemed exceedingly strange. Though their initial dizziness soon passed, every physical effort was a chore. Pogue, who said he felt as if he weighed a thousand tons, found that it even was work to roll over in bed. When Carr rested his head in his wife's lap, he kept asking: "Is this too heavy for you?" Nonetheless, the astronauts were delighted to be home. During the ride from the airport, Carr remained glued to the car window, gazing intently at the people, the houses and the greenery. Gibson quickly asked his wife Julie to join...