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...Washington." As if she had just spent eight years in elected office. Did she? My recollection is that she presided incompetently over a grandiose health plan that failed, and then did First Lady chores (changing all those sheets in the Lincoln bedroom) until forced to endure, in a stoic rage, the sleazy business her husband got into. In the nick of time, she moved to New York before the filing deadline...
Domestically, the loudest voice for a policy change was the roar of rage from the California voters who passed Proposition 13 in June, an outcry quickly echoed across the country. Voters were rebelling against the combination of inflation and high taxes that is pinching purchasing power...
...biggest battles will rage over defense and social welfare spending. Together, the Pentagon and Health, Education and Welfare take about 60% of the budget. OMB is recommending defense spending of $122 billion, an increase of just under 9% from current levels and therefore not enough to offset inflation, which has been running at 91/2%. A defense budget of that size would not honor Carter's NATO pledge of last spring to increase U.S. defense expenditures by 3% above inflation. Last week, however. Carter repeated that promise, suggesting that he could end up overruling the recommendation of his own budget advisers...
...double the amount they spent ten years ago, and twice as much as Americans allot for amusements and spectator sports. There are some 28,000 trade, professional and other voluntary associations in the U.S., and by year's end they will have met nearly 250,000 times. The rage to meet has helped pack the nation's 37,410 hotels and motels to more than 70% of capacity, the highest room-occupancy rate in two decades. Some cities today are so over run with conventioneers that there is, quite literally, no room at the inn. Says Chicago's Jay Lurye...
...fight. Walt Whitman ended his poem Facing West from California 's Shores: "But where is what I started for so long ago?/ And why is it yet unfound?" Nathanael West's classic portrayal of California madness, the mob scene in The Day of the Locust, shows the rage of those who fled the ordinariness of their lives. "Where else could they go but California, the land of sunshine and oranges?" he wrote. "Once there, they discovered that sunshine isn't enough...