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...Congressmen. Reagan is proposing to chop only some $100 million out of FHA's 1982 outlays, but by reducing commitments for grants and loans to build water and sewage systems in small towns, future savings would grow substantially. The agency's most personal service has been to lend farmers who cannot get conventional loans the money they need to plant their crops, buy land or recover from adverse weather conditions. The Reagan Administration contends that other federal programs not aimed specifically at farmers cover some of the same needs...
WHAT TESS needs is an introduction by Alistair Cooke. He'd lend Roman Polanski's lush adaption of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles an appropriately ceremonious mood, sitting in his studio library, staring down his Coriolanian proboscis and solemnly intoning "Fate deals the cards with the deck stacked against you...and you must play out your hand. Fate moves you like a pawn across the chessboard of life. Fate..." In Polanski's hands, Hardy's tragedy is like an extravagantly produced episode of Masterpiece Theater, the sauntering tale of a country lass victimized by forces beyond...
...Hague, and of high-level worries in Washington. The Soviet Union has proposed building a natural-gas pipeline from the remote Siberian peninsula, 3,000 miles across the heart of Central Russia to Western Europe. Its partners in the project are to be the major Continental countries. They will lend the Soviets $10 billion to $15 billion to cover the entire construction cost of the project, and provide their best technology and equipment in return for a supply of 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, starting in 1986 at the earliest...
This Saturday at Princeton, the Tigers will get their first look at Seelen in his new role. With Coach Joe Bernal grooming a new backstroke ace in yardling Julian Bott, the multi-talented Seelen has moved over to lend depth to the Crimson freestyle sprint corps...
...nation to limit ourselves to small dreams," he said. "We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline." Effectively, he cited the simple patriotism of Private Martin Treptow, an obscure World War I hero (see box) to illustrate his conviction that every American can lend a hand and make a difference...