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That plan has long since become a kind of monster. In fiscal year 1972, the Government pumped out some $4 billion in farm subsidies, v. $3.8 billion in 1967. Many U.S. farmers along with their local tractor dealer, seed salesman and mail-order supplier-have come to count on Washington's annual check for part of their income, whether or not they actually need it. The maze of rules surrounding federal farm policy has turned farming into a kind of beat-the-Government-at-its-own-game business, encouraging some farmers to collect subsidies that rightfully they should...
Like a high-pressure salesman who has his prospect on the defensive, President Nixon last week kept up the pitch for Government frugality that he sounded so strongly in his budget message. In his annual economic report to Congress, Nixon italicized one sentence: Only by holding the line on federal spending will we be able to reduce the inflation rate further in 1973. If that can be achieved, he said, 1973 can be, not just "a very good year" like 1972, but "a great year" in which the U.S. will "enter into a sustained period of strong growth, full employment...
First Time. Theoretically, the SEC action is of major importance. It marks the first time that the Government agency has told the exchanges whom they can and cannot admit. But in practice it probably will mean little to the ordinary investor. Possibly some mutual-fund salesman may offer to handle the investor's trades as well as try to sell him shares in the fund. But the biggest institutions have little chance of generating a public brokerage volume four times as large as their own trades, and thus would have to continue funneling most of the fund transactions through...
...other customers laughed when Mary Anna Anderson tried to rent a Rototiller so she could plow her rock-filled yard and plant grass around her house in Van Nuys, Calif. Only men can rent power equipment, a salesman for Northridge Equipment Rentals told her curtly and without explanation. Anderson, 28, who had just graduated from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco but had not yet been admitted to the bar, said that as soon as she was a full-fledged lawyer she would sue. Two months ago she was and she did. Filing her complaint in Van Nuys...
...script is blessedly free of the frenetic banter of his plays. The plot, taken from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, A Change of Plan, is a bright comic idea: a man on his honeymoon falls in love with another woman. Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman in New York, marries a sweetly vacuous girl named Lila Kolodny (Jeannie Berlin). The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle...