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Even conservatives now accept that moderate deficit spending is often necessary to lift the economy out of a recession. Fair enough, but as the U.S. enters the fourth year of recovery, deficit spending is reaching tidal wave proportions. The deficit called for in Jimmy Carter's budget for fiscal 1979 is $60.6 billion, and it promises to keep the flood of red ink cresting at least through 1980 and probably much longer...
Spring is, of course, nature's season of liberation, of the Japanese cherry trees bursting into pink blossom along the Tidal Basin and the great Vs of black-headed geese soaring northward toward Canada. But it does not come easily or without risk. Easter brought to Boston a snowfall of 1.3 in., a last dusting on the 85.1 in. that have engulfed the city during the past winter, the worst in 30 years. The day after the seagulls returned to International Falls, Minn., a traditional sign of spring in the coldest town in the lower 48 states, a fierce...
...Party whose awesome structure harnessed that inchoate emotion which, with the force of a tidal wave, drove millions of people around the globe toward Marxism. It was the Party whose moral authority gave shape and substance to an abstraction, thereby making of it a powerful human experience. It was the Party that brought to astonishing life the deepest sense of their own humanness, allowing them to love themselves through the act of loving each other...
...dreams and whose dreams themselves fall apart at last. And, as so often in O'Neill, Poet has centripetal force and centrifugal wastefulness, giant strength and giant sprawl, sure theatrical instincts and shaky dramatic structure. The present revival at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater is like a tidal wave that seems to purge almost every defect of the play...
...time the winds subsided last week at least 12,000 people had died in India's most devastating tropical storm since 1971. What had turned the storm into a killer were the 18-ft. tidal waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million...