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Little Room. The principal roadblock, apart from popular feeling against tax boosts and congressional reluctance to raise the rates in an election year, has been the fiscal conservatives' demand for a substantial cutback in federal expenditures. With military spending still going up and the needs of the cities paramount...
Crippling Trend. McNamara's plans are destined to undergo considerable trimming in Congress, where presidential pleas for a tax increase have been countered by demands for $6 billion in spending cuts-half of which probably will come from next year's defense budget and from some $22 billion...
Shrinking Output. Internationally, the wide-ranging reassessment of Rembrandt's prodigious output has resulted in a marked contraction of the number of oil paintings unquestionably attributed to the Leiden miller's gifted son. In 1923, the German art historian W. R. Valentiner listed some 700 genuine Rembrandts. In...
Incantatory Drones. Ever since he wrote his first major work, Carmina Burana (1936), Orff has steadily pared away the body of Western musical devices-themes, counterpoints, harmonic progressions and so on-to arrive at a skeletal idiom of powerfully primitive, repetitive sounds. In Prometheus, what little melody was left was...
The desire for a new self-help alliance was also strong in the Middle East, where a number of oil states-including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain-learned of plans to pull back Britain's 6,000 troops guarding the Persian Gulf oil route, probably in 1971. Britain...