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...here is not to send the monster autos the way of the dinosaurs but to make them a more expensive privilege, using a system of tax levies and rebates based on mileage standards that have already been set by the Federal Government. Autos will be required to yield 18 m.p.g. by next year, 20 m.p.g. by 1980 and 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985. Not every individual car must meet these standards; they apply to the average of the models of each manufacturer...
...father's breakfast table made him an expert in international affairs. The memories of his graduate course during the first nine months of 1961 have, unfortunately, grown too dim in Washington. The Russians sent a man into space before we did and began to test the monster nuclear weapons that nobody thought they had. Our planes in the Berlin air corridor were buzzed; the autobahns were blocked. Insurgents consumed large chunks of Laos. The Bay of Pigs adventure was a disaster. Nikita Khrushchev pounded the table at the Vienna summit. The East Germans put up the Berlin Wall...
...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...
...bill's critics, notably many corporate executives, see it as a monster in the making. Any company that needs government approval to raise or lower a price, change an interstate route, get an export license or win permission to market a drug, could be subject to ACA'S watchful eye. So too would companies that have to meet Government safety standards for their products. Complains General Foods Chairman James Ferguson, an outspoken critic: "The cost of virtually nonstop litigation would increase enormously the expense of running any business and the price of goods to the consumer, while...
...containing a series of repressive measures. Among them: a vast expansion of the death penalty, prison terms for publication of vaguely defined classified Government information and exemption from prosecution for Government officials committing crimes in the name of national security. The two bills were combined into a 753-page monster known as Senate Bill 1 (S-l), which was widely attacked by civil libertarians. They blocked it in the Senate Judiciary Committee...