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Carter's reaction to the other bills is less certain. He wants lower farm price supports than Congress: $2.90 per bu. of wheat, v. $3 voted by a House committee and $3.10 by the Senate. If the Senate levels prevail, a veto is possible, and it would probably not be overridden. The $61.3 billion labor and health, education and welfare bill, which provides $2.1 billion more than Carter wants to spend, is a closer call. If the President vetoes it, he will look like a flinthearted conservative to many liberals. The White House is divided over what...
...Senate, the $4.8 billion Farm Bill was the issue. During his campaign Carter had told Iowa farmers, "We will make sure that our support prices are at least equal to the cost of production." But growers called his proposed support prices-including wheat at $2.60 per bu. -inadequate and "cruel." Carter upped the prices (wheat went to $2.90). But both houses of Congress raised them higher still: the House committee put wheat at $3.00, the Senate at $3.10. Last week the Senate approved its more generous Farm Bill by a lopsided margin of 69 to 18-more than...
Both of these films are about childhood and both of them are by the man who is, next to Buñuel, the most distinguished Spanish director. But that is where their similarity ends. Cria! is a dark and melodramatic comedy, highly original in plot, about how a child misperceives her actions and their consequences in the adult world. Cousin Angelica, though more stylistically unconventional, is a rather ordinary story about an adult attempting to refine and correct the memories of childhood. Cria! is an almost entirely successful work, while the other, earlier film must be regarded as an honorable...
Clarkson's Bill Blackwood scored at 16:02 of the third to give the Golden Knights a 6-4 lead. But Clarkson's Sid Tanchak was called for holding 15 seconds later and BU's Mike Eruzione connected on the power play at 16:55. Bethel then tied it one minute later...
...Clarkson's fourth in a row. Ironically, the last team to beat the Knights was BU...