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Parsimonious Beginning. He proposed a massive $5.7 billion cut in defense and space outlays, reductions or outright abolition for 57 "outmoded programs," and increased Social Security and transportation taxes and postal rates. For lack of money, the President suggested a parsimonious beginning on new activities that he endorses, such as those dealing with air and water pollution, welfare reform and federal revenue-sharing with states and cities. The result is a spending program of $200.8 billion, an increase of just $3 billion over projected expenditures for this year. Taking inflation into account, Nixon is really advocating a reduction in federal...
Athletic Types. Nixon and Laird originally wanted a man without military persona, someone who, unlike Lieut. General Hershey, 76, would be youth-oriented and attractive to the reformist critics of the present draft system. A couple of university presidents refused outright when approached to take the job. David Maxwell, Pennsylvania's budget director, was not interested. Then the Administration's recruiting effort turned to athletic types. Talent scouts tried to get John Pont, former head coach of Yale and now at Indiana University. Pont, who actively supported Nixon and was the President's occasional golf companion, said...
...resolve, his attendants had collected kerosene and firewood at their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar. To complicate matters, a Hindu named K. K. Toofan, fasting outside Indira's residence in New Delhi, threatened a suicide of his own if Chandigarh was not turned over outright to Haryana...
Neither side is usually guilty of outright lies. But the Arab countries, especially Egypt, exaggerate constantly, while Israel leans toward suppression. It does not seem to matter to the Arabs when their hyperbole is clearly showing. For instance, the combined Arab forces claim to have shot down 249 Israeli aircraft during 1969. Yet, by the estimate of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, Israel in mid-1969 had only 275 aircraft, including transports, trainers and spotters...
Fellowships are outright gifts; the predominant type of financial aid at the Business School is loans at 6 per cent interest. Financial assistance at the Business School, including the Sloan grants, is awarded on the basis of need...