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...liberal Senators, fear that revenue sharing will lead to cutbacks in special-purpose grants. The National Education Association will back revenue sharing only if it is assured that half of the new money will go to support public schools. Governors and mayors, eager as they are for revenue sharing, roar with anger at any thought of cutbacks in existing programs of aid for specific purposes. Volcker and other Administration leaders disclaim any such intention but add that "we are definitely talking about a change in emphasis and direction" of federal help for the future. Nixon, however, will have to calm...
...early Depression era collaborated on such Warner Bros, extravaganzas as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and a spate of other Late Late Show favorites. Ruby has spent 30 retirement years in the wings, most of the time happily married to an industrial builder. But the roar of the greasepaint has drawn her irresistibly back to Broadway, where she started her career at the age of 13 in the chorus of a musical called The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly...
...seem strange at first to claim there is anything philosophical about the spectacle of twenty-two professional giants pounding over a field of plastic grass while 60,000 lunatics roar in pleasure or disgust. The players, of course, with their physical and financial survival in continual jeopardy, are no more likely to philosophize during the game than gladiators in the arena-But for the viewers, especially for the viewers watching for free in the eremitical peace of living room or den, protected from the elements, aided and enlightened by instant replay and running commentary, a well played game...
...systematically conducted a campaign of terrorism. Last year they killed an average 500 civilians a month. Though Cambodia's war has become Viet Nam's in miniature, most Western officials refused to believe that terrorism would play a part in it. Then last week, with a thunderous roar, nearly 100 lbs. of plastique exploded in Phnom-Penh's U.S. embassy. Thick concrete walls were ripped open; floors and ceilings were ruptured. But the plastique went off at 6:35 a.m., 55 minutes before the first staff members arrived for work, and nobody was hurt...
Above the howling wind and the driving rain, the villagers of Manpura Island could hear an unholy roar welling up from the Bay of Bengal. "It was pitch dark," said Abdul Jabbar last week, ''but suddenly I saw a gigantic, luminous crest heading toward our village." Jabbar managed to survive the lethal 120-m.p.h. cyclone and the 20-ft. tidal wave that followed, but most of his neighbors were less fortunate. All but 5,000 of Manpura Island's 30,000 people died in the surging waters. Most of the island's cattle, sheep, goats...