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Junior Randy Roth beat All-American Terrier goalie Ed Walsh with 2:37 remaining in the contest to break a 4-4 tie and lift Harvard to victory. Roth, who earned MVP honors for the tournament, scored on a high shot from the left faceoff circle area, assisted by senior defenseman Levy Byrd...
...Energy Lift. Most of the spending increases are the result of either inflation or program expansions that were ordered in earlier years. One exception: in the budget, spending on energy research and development would rise by $650 million, to a total of $1.6 billion. Most of the added money would be used to develop nuclear-power projects and coal technology. Another exception: the Administration would nearly double spending on mass transit, from $488 million to $900 million, and federal subsidies would finally be available to help reduce the operating deficits of local transit systems...
Partly to narrow the gap between affluence and poverty in the U.S., the nation has long had a progressive income tax and public programs to help lift those on the bottom of the economic ladder. Yet in its annual report last week the Council of Economic Advisers came to a surprising conclusion: the income differences between affluent and poor Americans yawned as wide in 1972 as they...
Administration economists had long been planning to lift the controls and they sped up their timetable because the dollar was gaining in value on world currency markets, threatening to make U.S. goods too expensive for foreign buyers. Partly because of the dollar's relative cheapness until now, the nation scored a surplus in its foreign trade in 1973. Last week the Commerce Department announced that the U.S. exported $1.68 billion more than it imported, the first annual surplus in three years...
...administering them. Treasury Secretary George Shultz strongly disliked them. Said Shultz: "Whatever net restraint really existed, the cost was high." Last week's removal immediately led other nations to take their own steps toward freedom. The governments of Canada, West Germany and Belgium said that they would lift their capital controls in response to the U.S. move, and The Netherlands is expected to follow suit...