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...have always attempted awkwardly to imitate closely the democratic institutions of others," Park declared in introducing the amendments last week. "We can no longer sit idle while wasting our precious national power in imitating the systems of others." He added that the revised constitution "guarantees maximum efficiency in regimenting national strength...
...education and welfare programs. "The choice," he asserted, "is between Mr. Nixon's large increases in military spending, accompanied by substantial cutbacks in education, health care and the like, and the McGovern program to move in the opposite direction - to cut defense spending, close tax loopholes and use precious public funds to meet our needs here at home...
...purchases is expected soon to alleviate scarcities of staple foods, especially bread. The Russians intend to mill the fine-quality American and Canadian wheat for flour. Their own sparse grain crop will be used to provide cattle feed. But present shortages of feed have forced the Soviets to slaughter precious livestock herds that are insufficient even in the best of times. Although this may provide a temporary bonanza of meat this winter, it will also diminish supplies of dairy products...
Boneless Brush. The word Rimpa means, literally, "school of precious gems." Though the Rimpa school spanned 250 years and produced some of the finest decorative art Japan-or the world at large-has seen, its members were few and their identity often vague. Its founder was Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637). In 1615, a warlord gave Koetsu some land in the mountains around Kyoto. The artist laid out a village there: papermakers, dyers, weavers, calligraphers, lacquer masters and painters settled in it, with Koetsu presiding over them all. The collaborations that followed make it excruciatingly hard to determine which...
...lawmakers feared that President Nixon would hold the measure, unsigned, until Congress adjourns in mid-October. Such a pocket veto would not give Congress a chance to override the President's action. If the bill is killed, warns Senator Muskie, "Before Congress can act again, more precious time will be lost in a battle where time is running out on our future...