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...When President Nixon presents his election-year budget this month, it will be relatively bare of those shiny new social programs that stir voter enthusiasm. In that lack lies a harsh truth: despite prospects for a strong, sustained economic recovery, ever-rising federal expenditures and a long series of tax cuts have left the Government strapped for ready cash. As a result, the Administration faces some tough choices. It must either raise taxes, cut current expenditures, or go slow in meeting a growing plethora of public needs, including benefits for Viet Nam veterans, pollution control, mass transit, prison reform...
...gringoized culture seems to them slightly sluttish. Their thinking is "cogitus interruptus." Only occasionally is there a political edge to their talk. Toward the end of the novel, the actor says without much conviction that he is going to join the guerrillas in the mountains. The announcement causes little stir, and is swept away by the barman...
From the Oval Office the President moves through the West Wing past his staff offices, then down the back stairs and into the basement. Secret Service men and White House policemen stir. Nixon stops to say a few words to Henry Kissinger's staff in the corner basement office. "How's everyone in the sweatshop? Is he still working you hard...
...Japan, the storm warnings were up. Jane Fonda-or, as local newspapers described her, "Typhoon Jane" -was blowing into the country to stir up the peace movement, lash the resident U.S. military brass and crack a few thunderbolts at male chauvinism. After whooshing through five Japanese cities, Jane had generated formidable gusts of publicity and scattered showers of four-letter words. But the impact was considerably less than tropical force...
...rotates through space), the north pole will be tilted so that it receives more solar radiation during the planet's close approach to the sun. The increased radiation would heat up the northern icecap, release large amounts of trapped water into the atmosphere and make enough water available to stir up any lazy creatures that might have hibernated through the long Martian winter. Impossible? Perhaps, says Sagan, but he adds that those who criticize such speculations do so only because of their "chauvinistic" earthbound outlook...