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...implicit goals of Reagan's federalism plan is eventually to cap or reduce social spending at all levels of Government. By assuming full control of Medicaid, for example, the Federal Government will be more able to cut the program's cost. Some of the services once provided by Washington will simply be dropped by the states, a prospect that many liberals fear and many conservatives favor (see following story...
...dullest and most depressing. The theaters are closed, the cafés usually empty and the streets practically devoid of traffic after dark. But worse than these obvious signs is the apparent death of the spirit. Poland is a nation of individuals. The most ordinary worker wears his cap just so and has his own look. Now, when you walk through Warsaw, the people somehow seem faceless...
...Rooney? And even if his weekly spots aren't always stimulating and funny, they do provide a somewhat refreshing change of pace to the aggressively serious tone which dominates the rest of "60 Minutes." Andy Rooney is the sprig of parsley, the after dinner mint to cap off a heavy meal. There is room on television for an Andy Rooney...
...When a person takes a shower and looks down, he doesn't want to see a lot of colors running off him." Did you ever worry about that? Probably not. That joke might have been saved on television, with Rooney standing in a shower stall with a funny bathing cap or something...
...they tell her that she must procure the magic zither which confers upon its owner the power to go to sleep while apparently carrying on a conversation.... Immerglich calls to her side Dampfboot, the tinsmith of the gods, and bids him make for her a tarnhelm or invisible cap which will enable her to talk to people without their understanding a word she says. For a dollar and a half extra, Dampfboot throws in a magic ring which renders its wearer insensible...