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More than any other state document, the annual budget forces a President to translate rhetoric into reality, to assign priorities and price tags to his visions. The budget's cold columns leave no room for fantasies-just stark, unyielding figures. In the budget for fiscal 1968 that Lyndon Johnson is sending to Congress this week, bound in a subdued, rust-colored cover, the priorities are baldly stated. The President calls for a sizable increase in defense spending to sustain the Viet Nam war, with a complementary slowdown-though not an actual decrease-in Great Society spending...
...bills Thomas Balogh, believes that the world is a ticking time bomb. Rich nations are getting richer while poor nations are getting poorer-and unless the trend is radically reversed, warns the author, all the colored races will embrace Chinese-style totalitarianism. His thesis is well-worn and his stark pessimism is questionable, but the problem of widening inequalities is all too real and urgent...
Once they skirt the stark alternatives of the Supreme Being question, Harvard CO's take advantage of Seeger's invitation to individualism, often enlisting the help of philosophers and writers to help them express their objections to war. "It's really amazing the people they bring in to support their objection," a draft advisor in the Square marvelled. "I've just recently seen a couple of Lao-tzu types," he added...
...them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair dryer...
...several appearances on the Danny Kaye and Andy Williams TV shows. Then she rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny Stark, she also keeps up a rigorous schedule of daily lessons in diction, breathing, modern dancing, physical culture and English conversation. So far, she has mastered "hello," "goodbye," and "I love...