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...while, it looked as if MacCready's plastic bird might never leave its nest. Since arriving in France in early June, he and his colleagues had played a frustrating game of hide-and-seek with the sun, made one false start and even sought more favorable conditions by packing up and shifting their base to England before returning to France. When Ptacek, who honed his flying skills as a crop duster, finally got under way last week and started climbing to his cruising altitude of 11,000 ft., he radioed that he was being buffeted by turbulence from...
...press conference complaint about "congressional backsliding and a return to spending as usual" was directed at the House version, in which, the President charged, "some committees reported spending cuts they know can't be made." Reagan had in mind the House Education and Labor Committee, a nest of old-time liberals headed by Democrat Carl Perkins of Kentucky. Perkins' ploy was to meet the goals of the House budget resolution by cynically slashing politically popular programs, for which funding would almost certainly be restored during floor debate. Examples: ending college loans for families making more than...
...passbook savings was considered to be about normal. The trouble began in the mid-1960s, when inflation rose from 1% to 5%. In 1965, when thrifts were paying up to 4¾%, a family earning the national average of $7,704 and with a nest egg of about $3,500 in the bank would have realized an annual return of about $80 after inflation and federal taxes were taken into account. By 1967 inflation and taxes had reduced the gain to zero. In the year 1970, that same average family would have lost $110; and in 1979 it would have...
...face of crusading anti-communists outside the University. In the Massachusetts state house, the legislature considered three bills aimed at preventing Communists from teaching in Massachusetts universities. Rep. Charles Iannell of Boston, sponsor of two of the bills, said. "It is a wellknown fact that Harvard is a nest of Communists...
...first member of the family to actually leave the nest," she says. "I'm really psyched about living in New York. Derby is hardly a booming metropolis, so it should be an interesting experience...