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...election year. So far in 1966, Congress has aggravated the inflationary danger by appropriating $3 billion more for nonwar spending than Johnson asked for. House leaders contend that they will not support a tax hike unless Viet Nam spending swells enormously-which it may well do. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon believes that Viet Nam "is going to cost us many billions more than asked for in the fiscal 1967 budget...
...that issue the property was spotty but generally solid. Sam Abrams, a Weaton professor, specializes in disjuction and fails to connect student here, surrenders occasionally to the soft blandishments of consecutive words but does it very well, particularly in two Costa translations. Derek Mahon, an Irish poet and Trinity man now in Cambridge, has conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always...
...Americans bother to penetrate this forest-and that is something of a shame. For those who do venture into it, the budget is rich in impressive landmarks, bizarre growths, hidden surprises, hints of the future and enough tantalizing trivia to dine out on for a year. "Budgets," says George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, "set goals, chart courses of action, outline expectations and embody anticipations." They are large slices of the nation's life in all its wonderful variety...
...Many Administration supporters in Congress already are beginning to question the cost of the programs they voted. Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations' Committee and a longtime Johnson pal, said last week that because of the stepped-up war effort in Viet Nam, the Government might find it wise to be far less generous with funds for the Great Society. "In the light of the situation confronting us," said Mahon, "it is urgent that the executive and legislative branches make a determined effort to withhold the actual spending of funds already made available by Congress...
...Johnson conferred at the ranch with his economic advisers, including Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, sent word back to Administration officials in Washington to cut back on spending-though next year's budget is almost certain to break all records. As Mahon pointed out, Johnson's Great Society is the area most susceptible to economizing but even so it seemed doubtful that the President could wring out meaningful savings unless he curtails major welfare programs or pet projects such as highway beautification...