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Thus, Lloyd served notice that he is no longer the dove on the House Armed Services Committee who helped persuade Congress last year to cut $7.8 billion from the Pentagon's fiscal 1976 budget request; the 8% reduction (to a final budget of $90.5 billion) was the largest since 1953. This year Lloyd and many other members of Congress have become Pentagon converts. Says he: "I am no hawk, mind you. But there has been an increase in the Soviet capacity to wage war. One on one we are still better. But Americans, including myself, perceive a lessening...
...four members in the Knesset; two are Jews. Lately there has been talk among the Arabs about trying to focus voting strength to increase their membership in parliament to twelve?a powerful bloc in Israel's fragmented politics. Last December the voters of Nazareth (pop. 40,000), Israel's largest Arab city, elected Tawfiq Zayad, a Communist, as their mayor...
Harvard's eight million books, Williamson explained, comprise the largest university library in the world; Schmidt pointed to Lamont, and, by way of translation, called it "la libraire la plus grande du monde...
...their books. One guest on the Mike Douglas show was ready to accept the fact that his book had only been thumbed, but was surprised to see that the host's cue cards read: "That's interesting. Tell me about it." There are gaffs on even the largest, most thoroughly prepared programs. Interviewing Guy Lombardo about his book Auld Acquaintance, Jim Hartz of the Today show wanted to know how Brother Carmen was doing. "He passed away three years ago," answered...
...viewed Mayor Frank Rizzo's unsuccessful attempt to kill a column strongly critical of his administration which appeared in the March 14th edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The publication of that column and the events that followed portend dangerous consequences for both the people of the nation's fourth largest city and editors who write about politics in every newspaper in the country...