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...rate of about 400,000 a year (primarily from Latin America and Asia), immigrants at present account for about 20% of the yearly population growth. If births and deaths are balanced, immigration would be responsible for all the growth, and eventually immigrants and their descendants would loom disproportionately large in the population...
There are few in sight. Indeed, many more troubles still loom for the increasingly isolated President. He as much as admitted at his press conference that his income tax deduction of $482,000 for the donation of his public papers was at least technically illegal?because the paper work was not completed before the law allowing such deductions expired?and he hinted that he would have to pay a large sum in back taxes. His own tax accountant, Arthur Blech, was quoted last week as saying that he objected to some of Nixon's 1970 and 1971 deductions...
...during the 29-day holiday recess exposed them to an American public that was angry, suspicious, impatient and sour, and one, moreover, that was sharply divided on how to solve the nation's problems. Energy shortages, exploding prices, dwindling jobs, all conspired to make 1974, for most legislators, loom as their Year of the Nervous Stomach...
...American men actually buy Noxzema shaving cream because they see Quarterback Joe Namath lathering his beard with it on TV, Fruit of the Loom underwear because it is recommended by tell-it-like-it-is Sportscaster Howard Cosell, or Schick razors because they are approved by Olympic Swimming Star Mark Spitz...
...Construction men rage that doling out fuel on the basis of "year-earlier" usage (that is, so much less this month than in December 1972) will unfairly penalize an industry whose project starts are erratically timed, depending on the weather and the availability of workers and contracts. Materials shortages loom too: the manufacture of lime, a key ingredient in cement, requires more energy than any other product made in the U.S., and diesel fuel to run construction machinery is scarce. Economists at a Washington conference sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board predicted a drop in housing starts...