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...dinner table of their white brick home in Chevy Chase, Md., Charles Mathias and his wife Ann were talking about an unhappy afternoon that he had just spent in the Senate. The President had moved to weaken the food stamp program, which Mathias strongly supported. His wife, who is not easily rattled, closed her fist on the table and said: "How much longer can we go on like this? Wouldn't it be better if we changed parties...
...successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases of such longtime favorites as Bambi, Pinocchio and Fantasia, and from sales of record albums, Mickey Mouse wristwatches and everything else bearing the Disney stamp...
...came a $125 million victory over the Department of Agriculture, which had been holding back congressionally appropriated food funds for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children. The topper was last month's stunning blow to the Ford Administration's bid to eliminate $1.2 billion in food stamps. Ruling that the proposed action was probably illegal, Federal Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. blocked the food-stamp cut until the case is finally resolved. Said Smith: "Hunger and deprivation might result, which could hardly be cured through any retroactive relief...
...cheek, The Economist of London chose last week to publish a Declaration of Dependence, suggesting that Britain might be better off reunited with "our American Brethren " as the 51st state. Among the magazine's grievances against the present government: "They have repeatedly and cruelly increased the Price of stamps, thereby effectively levying a Stamp Tax; they have reduced the Value of the Pound to just about 1.776 Dollars, which is an excessively Bicentennial Figure." The Declaration acknowledged past differences ("What if we did burn down Washington in 1814? Jimmy Carter, at least, ought to approve "), but in support...
...lavish pictorial exhibit celebrating their defeat that is currently on display at Greenwich's National Maritime Museum, where it is expected to attract more than 1 million visitors. Two years in the making, "1776, the British Story of the American Revolution" traces events from just before the Stamp Act was imposed, in 1764, to George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams, the fledgling nation's first minister to London, in 1785. Fittingly, the monarch's words on that occasion ("Let the circumstances of language, religion and blood have their natural and full effect...