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...following page). There was even talk in Washington of a "congressional government," meaning that the Legislative Branch would dominate the Executive. With relative ease, the Democrats passed their own $8.1 billion tax rebate, largely abolished the oil depletion allowance, canceled Ford's plans to reduce the food-stamp program and cut off further military aid to the non-Communist governments of Cambodia and South Viet...
Wilder's is essentially an airbrushed vision of life. The closest Our Town comes to the problem of evil is a tipsy choirmaster-organist. Insofar as Wilder sought to suggest the sublime in the commonplace, he failed; but in placing the stamp of value and continuity on everyday life, he succeeded. He celebrates the cycle of growing up, falling in love, marrying, giving birth and suffering death with all its attendant joys and sorrows...
Vischer says that King Louis XIV's purported remark, "I am the state," would "hardly be an exaggeration on the lips of the Pope," who is an absolute monarch in his postage-stamp realm. Vischer also argues that Vatican City's existence as a sovereign state limits the church's readiness to support anti-establishment political movements...
...Green-Circle, and pictures of Zaire's president Mobutu Sete Seko. Mobutu has changed the county's name from the Congo to Zaire, instituted the new flag, and changed his own image in an effort to foster nationalism among his people. Mobutu's face appears on every Zaire stamp, and on all currency except for the very smallest coin. On coins minted in 1967, right after he came to power, he's depcited in an army uniform with rows of medals on his chest and a mean look on his face under his black glasses. Coins from 1969 show...
Ford's theory of the economy is frankly conservative, a workable justification for positions like Ford's proposed hike in food stamp prices. "I happen to think that we should have great opportunity for people in this country to get ahead," Ford told Hersey. "I believe in saving... On the other hand, I enjoy material things... I enjoy nice clothes... I enjoy doing nice things. But I enjoy these things because I worked for them." Of the food stamp program. Ford says, "It's the ones who are sort of the fringe people who cause the most trouble...