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...Safe Soil. Next morning Ford met with 33 small-town and suburban mayors from the Midwest. He urged them to push Congress hard to extend the revenue-sharing program, which is due to expire at the end of 1976. During his relaxed and freewheeling exchanges with the mayors, Ford also reinforced his refusal to rescue New York City from its financial crisis (see page 20). Said the President: "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your city as badly as New York City has been...
That afternoon Ford flew to Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, and within the fenced confines of the base he finally was able to do the crowd mingling he loves. After 15 relaxed minutes on safe Air Force soil, Ford was driven under heavy guard to a downtown hotel, where he attended a conference of business and civic leaders set up by the White House to discuss domestic and economic problems. In a television interview that evening, Ford broadly hint ed that he would favor renewing individual income tax cuts in 1976 if Congress would hold down spending (see ECONOMY...
Like most of the peoples in the new breed of basket case nation-states, Bengalis live close to the soil, love and have many children, suffer hunger and sickness, work hard, and die young. The Bengalis are by one estimate 95 percent illiterate, which puts them in the running for least educated people in the world. Although Central Africa has the distinction of being the world's most unhealthy region, health conditions in Bangladesh are none too good--the delta is the place where cholera and smallpox originated and is regularly stricken with diseases the West forgot about centuries...
...Tokyo where it is kept. Although items from the imperial collections have gone on loan to Japanese museums, a representative selection has never been shown. But when Emperor Hirohito makes his visit to the U.S. next month, he will be the first Japanese-monarch to set foot on American soil; as a gesture of good will, 35 of his paintings, screens and objets d'art have been sent to precede him. The show opened last week at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and will move next month to the Japan House Gallery in Manhattan, whose enterprising director, Rand Castile...
...make incursions into Lymington of a more destructive nature than the simple murder of Kimberly Ann Regan. Shopping malls, vinyl tombstones, and seaside development corporations are confounding the natural beauty of his town in more lasting ways than the incidental dumping of a bloody corpse on its sacred soil...