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Sunshine Law. As a budget-slashing, reform-minded Governor, he consolidated some 300 state agencies into a more manageable 22, creating a mammoth department of human resources that handles everything from food-stamp certification and mental health to vocational rehabilitation and disability insurance. He intends to bring such cost-cutting measures to the Federal Government if he reaches the White House in 1977. As Georgia's Governor, he oversaw the passage of a "sunshine law," which permits more public access to legislative committees and executive agencies, another reform he hopes to bring to Washington...
Scott Meadow will be at 167 pounds while Jim Strathmeyer will be featured at 177. B.U. co-captain Mark Jones in the most competitive match of the day. Crimson mainstay Bart VanDissel and the mammoth Kip Smith will command the 190 and heavyweight classes respectively...
...Like mammoth prehistoric birds, Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines face a threat of extinction because of changing conditions, notably a fourfold rise in fuel prices and a deep slump in international air travel. Having failed in an attempt to wangle Government subsidies to keep them aloft, the two carriers last week unveiled the first move in their strategy for survival: a far-reaching, five-year swap of overseas routes that would drastically reduce head-on competition between the American giants and, they hope, allow them to fly planes somewhat more fully loaded (though each would still...
NEVERTHELESS, on his own ground, there are few if any people as highly qualified as Spender to tackle the mammoth undertaking of his subject matter. Although an Englishman to the core, Spender's contact with the American literary scene has been extensive. As a visiting professor and lecturer on numerous American campuses, and as British editor for fourteen years on the Anglo-American literary magazine Encounter, Spender has been more than a mere witness to American literary activity for almost half a century. Along with W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice, he was part of the 'thirties...
...sounded an expectably sobering note. After almost a month of separate meetings with economists, businessmen, labor leaders, farmers, financiers and other groups, the President and his top economic aides last week sat down with some 800 leaders of those interests, as well as key Senators and Congressmen, for a mammoth two-day debate on what to do about the U.S. economy. Though politically the Democrats warned Ford that he could not count on automatic bipartisan support for Administration policies, there emerged an overwhelming economic consensus that the battle against roaring inflation will be long and painful, and during its course...