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...brought into partnership America's most secret institution, the CIA, and its most secret citizen, Howard Hughes. It also, in its way, pushed the limits of engineering and technology almost as far as Project Apollo, which took man to the moon, and may well have been the largest and most expensive espionage effort in the long history of man's spying on man. The aim was simple: to raise the submarine from its grave without the Soviets' knowledge, in order to learn some of the secrets of their nuclear weaponry, targeting and codes. The submarine was believed...
Moving in fits and starts, and fending off more than 100 often spurious amendments, the Senate last week approved the largest tax cut in U.S. history. Coupled with a historic repeal of the 49-year-old oil-depletion allowance for all but the smallest independent oil producers, the $33 billion tax-relief bill must now be compromised with a similar, although smaller $21.3 billion cut approved by the House. Under heavy pressure from the White House to act speedily to spur the nation's depressed economy, congressional leaders hope to present President Ford with a final tax package this...
...Nguyen Van Thieu surrendered fully one-fourth of his country -seven provinces with an estimated population of more than 1.7 million people-to the attacking Communists. Dusty district roads and coastal highways were choked with countless thousands of frightened civilians clutching their possessions and fleeing their homes in the largest exodus since Viet Nam was divided in 1954. Meanwhile, reinforced North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces mobilized what appeared to be their most devastating offensive since the Easter attacks...
...Italy, where the Communists have been the nation's second largest political organization (though always remaining in opposition), party leaders are thinking seriously of seeking a share of power through the ballot box. In Greece, the Communists gained only 9% of the vote in last November's elections, but they too are disciplined and may do better next time...
Certain students at Harvard, for the most part residents of one of the nation's largest cities and tending to have a rather bloated sense of the importance of their home metropolis, very often succumb to the myth of The Big City. Charmed but piqued by the limited offering of activities and cultural events in the greater Boston area, this student, while on his way to Lamont to renew The History of Art for the fifth time that day, lapses into reveries of world-premier movies, a new production of La Traviata, and cocktail parties at which members of both...