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Arithmetical Abracadabra. For two days, the Administration trio painstakingly elaborated the President's case for increased revenue. The cost of the war, along with domestic spending, is running as much as $8 billion higher than anticipated last January. The surcharge would bring in $6.3 billion in the current fiscal year, and, along with other tax adjustments, would reduce a horrendous national budget deficit of $29 billion to between $14 billion and $18 billion. Thus, they argued, the surcharge is vital therapy for an economy whose current expansion (see U.S. BUSINESS) threatens, if unchecked, to result in a new spiral...
...shot to death in an exchange of gunfire." According to rumors buzzing through the Negro community, they had been murdered in cold blood. After a thoroughgoing investigation of the killings by Detroit News Reporter Joseph Strickland, city officials reluctantly rounded up a covey of witnesses who agreed that the trio had been shot without provocation...
Babe backs up Deitch and Adagala with an engaging ensemble. Patricia Hawkins is Garga's selfish, brightly brainless wife. Jim Shuman, Anthony Mowbray, and Lloyd Schwartz as Skinny, the Baboon and the Worm respectively are a trio of underworld figures who are funny yet always potentially dangerous. And I. M. Lamb as Garga's father is the most amazingly impotent old man ever to live off his children...
Albert Shanker, who heads the 49,000- member teachers' union, said yesterday that this trio was "not equipped" to do the job and that their selection "greatly increases the possibility that schools will not reopen on Sept...
...Farber's kettledrumming were particularly expert; and all the hornists negotiated their treacherous parts with real heroism. There were some bad moments, such as the ragged fiddling at the start of the first movement's coda and the end of the funeral march; and a woodwind passage in the trio of the scherzo was muffed the first time, but went admirably the second. The finale, which is the one weak movement in the symphony, suffered much of the time from a lack of ensemble, and had doubtless gone much better in rehearsal...