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When the Reagan Administration announced its proposed new budget a week ago, students, parents and college administrators sent up a chorus of woe. Despite staggering college costs and shrinking disposable family income, Washington is looking to cut aid to students and universities by more than...
...short term. Reagan plans to submit to Congress next week a status report on fiscal 1982 spending with a bottom line close to $96 billion in the red and a fiscal 1983 budget with an equally dizzying debt. The man who for years attributed almost every economic woe to Government's propensity to spend more than it takes in shrugged off this lapsed faith by saying, "There are too many imponderables for anyone to predict deficits or surpluses several years ahead with any degree of accuracy." Reagan has discovered that it is much harder than he once claimed...
CORNELL at PENN: Big Red coach Bob Blackman loves to sing his song of woe, then change his tune every week after a "surprise" win. This year the woe may be real with 33 lettermen gone, including almost every starter. Still, you can't tell me there isn't enough left to beat Penn, a team that topped only Columbia a year ago. Sorry Bob, it just won't work. CORNELL 20, PENN...
From George Washington on, those elected to the nation's highest office found themselves variously confounded by conflicting demands. They were supposed to be of the people but a little above them, too; woe to them if they did not run the Executive Branch efficiently, and equal woe if they failed at improvident spellbinding. Small talk seems to have flummoxed some of them. During the 1824 campaign, John Quincy Adams was approached by an old farmer, who said: "My wife, when she was a gal, lived in your father's family; you were then a little...
...confused and lonely hearted, to Idaho Woe and Been Around and Mr. Also, they are wise and steady friends. To 130 million readers from Tokyo to Tucson, they are the witty and no-nonsense "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers." In real life, they are twin sisters, Esther Pauline ("Eppie") Lederer (alias Ann Landers) and Pauline Esther ("Popo") Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), together the most widely syndicated columnists in the world, with upwards of 1,000 newspapers apiece. Says Loyola (Chicago) University Psychologist Eugene Kennedy: "Their columns are the national mailbag. The advice they give is fundamental common sense...