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...Ford proposes raising the payroll tax to 6.15% on employer and employee alike, beginning in 1977. That would cost someone making $10,000 a year an additional $30. By Ford's calculations, the boost would increase tax collections above anticipated benefit payouts, so that the trust fund would swell to $65 billion...
DONNY & MARIE (ABC, Friday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.)-Osmond, that is-are not to be accorded even the briefest benefit of the doubt. The family's patented musical style is basically "Gee whiz, kids, I've got a swell idea. Let's put on a show." This is an impulse that should have been dealt with in preadolescence...
...applause swell for past dramas: Ike before worshipful masses in Seoul; Kennedy firm-jawed at the Berlin Wall; L.B.J. staring down Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro; Nixon clinking glasses in the Great Hall with Chou Enlai, then eating Wheaties in the Kremlin; Ford grinning beneath his fur hat in the snows of Vladivostok with Leonid Brezhnev. Worthy acts. But the world changes...
...dates and statistics. The guillotine devours French leaders at such a bewildering pace that the list of names often reads like a body count, not a narrative. Later chapters pondering the fate of other European nations influenced by Bonaparte's power - England, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Germany - swell with so many scenes, leaders and wars that the reader is wearied by the sheer flow of words...
This, Gardner expects, will lead to a reduction in the absolute numbers of candidates for honors even though the size of the department as a whole may slightly swell because of the new policy of open enrollment...