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...melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget, for a total work-force cut of 72,397 by June...
...Helen Shields, a fourth-year resident in gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital: "The locker-room humor that I often heard in medical school back in the late '60s is frowned upon now." Women are entering medicine in greater numbers than most other professions. Last fall nearly one-fourth of the nation's incoming medical students were women, up from 13% in 1972. Increasingly, women are specializing in areas that have long been male strongholds: surgery, gastroenterology and ophthalmology...
...students here, about 6200--slightly under 40 per cent--are going through their first four years of higher education. Of the 4300-some instructors, 763 are voting members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which most often comes in contact with undergraduates and which spends about one-fourth of the university's $200-million budget...
...Information Agency, which with more than 9,000 people is about one-fourth as large as the entire State Department, has done nothing else quite so effectively as oppose a reorganization plan drafted by the prestigious Stanton Commission. The commission logically believes that the cold war, for which the USIA was formed, is over and that most of the agency's function should now be absorbed by the State Department...
Suddenly, unexpectedly, the endless war in South Viet Nam took a dramatic new turn last week. Abandoning a 20-year government policy of fighting for every inch of South Vietnamese territory, President Nguyen Van Thieu surrendered fully one-fourth of his country -seven provinces with an estimated population of more than 1.7 million people-to the attacking Communists. Dusty district roads and coastal highways were choked with countless thousands of frightened civilians clutching their possessions and fleeing their homes in the largest exodus since Viet Nam was divided in 1954. Meanwhile, reinforced North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces mobilized what...