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...short, the U.S. does well by doing good. What is needed is a reorganization of the aid program in order to centralize its di rection, clarify its aims and display to the U.S. people that its lofty missions can produce down-to-earth results. As the early reaction to Carter's multibillion-dollar pledge in the Middle East showed last week, the nation is willing enough to assist other peoples if there is a reasonable promise that the investment will produce political or humanitarian benefits. -Frank Trippett
...cost of food, especially meat; beef prices jumped 30% last year, and some experts say they could increase by 50% this year. The chains have thus been forced to charge more; McDonald's raised its prices last year by about 14%. But higher costs are causing people to order down−to pass up the $1.05 Big Mac for a 500 regular hamburger, buy smaller portions of French fries and cut out dessert...
...fortnight ago, Government lawyers got a ten-day restraining order to stop the Progressive and its editor, Erwin Knoll, from publishing an article describing how an H-bomb is built. At a hearing scheduled for next week, they will argue for permanently prohibiting publication. The Government's case appears strong: the article is accurate enough, say Government experts, to help other countries develop the bomb. And the 1954 Atomic Energy Act specifically bans dissemination of secret information about atomic weapons. But if the Government wins, it will be the first time a U.S. court has stopped the press from...
...orchestra among local players so that Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians could demonstrate a point of technique rapidly. Then he plunged ahead, a riveting little figure dressed to silk-screen perfection in a mod-Mao white suit by Designer Hanae Mori. He virtually pummeled the unruly sound into order and expressiveness, right leg stamping the beat, arms punching deep into the recalcitrant horn section...
...have crossed the Soviet border,' says the KGB agent, 'and it is my duty to inform you officially that you have been expelled from the territory of the U.S.S.R.' 'Do you have some sort of decree or order?' 'No, nothing.' 'And what about my sentence? Has it been quashed?' 'No, it remains in force.' 'So, I'm sort of a prisoner on holiday, on vacation?' 'Sort of.' " "They don't ever know either how to jail or release you properly," concludes Bukovsky...