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...base in 1954-but it is emotionally correct. Kaufman wanted to do a movie about "a particular form of American heroism" and to ask the question "How does that elusive quality survive in the midst of the American circus, the chaos, public commotion, the panic, that all threaten to stamp it out?" The answer, of course, is that it can do so only in total isolation and self-sufficiency. So Yeager's life had to be mildly, benignly fictionalized...
...Agriculture Secretary John Block and family ate on a "food stamp budget" for one week. We are supposed to be impressed. I have never lived on food stamps, but I have seen the struggles of friends who have. How would you like it, Mr. Block, if your infant went hungry because the milk soured and the food stamps weren't due to come for two more days...
...interviews by China's political leader. The book assembles Deng's pragmatic prescriptions for reforming China's backward economy and healing social wounds caused by years of fierce ideological persecution under Mao. Publication of the material in collected form gives Deng's thoughts the stamp of official doctrine recalling Mao's notorious Little Red Book first issued...
...still illegal to peddle drugs. But citizens who intend to sell illicit drugs in Arizona anyway are now obliged to get a $100 state license from the department of revenue. Still more curious, the law that went into effect last month requires that an official, yellow $10 tax stamp be stuck to every 1-oz. bag of marijuana sold, and a $125 blue stamp to each 1-oz. parcel of cocaine (or any other illegal drug). What is more, the revenuers must keep the names of all licensees confidential; otherwise the statute would violate the constitutional protection against selfincrimination...
Secretary of Agriculture John Block sought to defend the current level of food stamp funding by showing that a family of four could subsist on a $58 allowance for a week. Surrounded by a flock of aides and reporters, he and his wife pushed a cart through their local supermarket picking up provisions recommended by nutritional experts. The millionaire farmer reported that there were only a few minor hitches in living on this allotment for a week: "The family crisis was when the dog ate the biscuits. But that could happen to any family, rich or poor." Critics countered that...