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...prime reason for the delay is that the Administration wants to wait until the bitter congressional fight over the President's energy program is resolved, and thus avoid getting the tax-revision proposals entangled in that scrap. Also, the White House has lately become increasingly concerned about possible sluggishness in the economy next year, and about the stiffening resistance of businessmen and some Congressmen to the tax-reform plan, even before it has officially been announced. In order both to pep up the economy and, they hope, disarm critics, Administration planners are subtly shifting the emphasis...
Witness, for instance, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano's ill-fated (luckily) attempt to scrap the $5.3 billion worth of subsidies for construction and rental of low-income housing in favor of providing the same amount to welfare recipients with no strings attached. One reason the South Bronx is in such bad shape, the New York Times reports, is that welfare money is not finding its way into the housing stock...
Early in the second half the Crimson clicked for its temporary lead. A scrap in front of the Dartmouth cage eventually rolled the ball over to star forward Sarah Mlezcko. The talented sophomore then rapped a shot which deflected off a Dartmouth defender and into the net for a 1-0 Harvard lead...
...crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from scrap bronze that he has melted down. "In the long run," he says, "the public will benefit if the artist's output is greater." As a gesture of appreciation, he is teaching young Irish sculptors how to cast their work...
...abrazo, of course, does not clinch the treaty, which faces a months-long scrap in the U.S. Senate and a plebiscite in Panama as well. But as last week's events sharply dramatized, Carter is going to use all his presidential resources to win approval of the treaty. He needs it to vindicate his foreign policy, which has run into snags in the Middle East, in the Far East and in the SALT talks. He also wants to emphasize that he is not solely preoccupied with East-West problems, but gives considerable weight to the crucial relationship between developed...