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...looked tanned and healthy, but his smile was tight and his bearing stiff. With his wife Pat and two of Peking's diplomats, he posed briefly at the doorway of the gleaming Chinese Boeing 707 jetliner. With that, the Richard Nixons flew from Los Angeles last week for a nine-day trip to the People's Republic of China, invited by Chairman Mao Tse-tung to mark the fourth anniversary of the former President's door-opening visit there. No fewer than 20 newsmen followed along. On hand to greet Nixon at the Peking airport was Acting...
...than $2 billion (5%) by 1980. More than $1 billion in food subsidies will be phased out; a $150 million fund to guarantee lower milk prices is the only exception. Transportation subsidies will be almost halved and construction programs for schools, hospitals and roads sharply curtailed. There will be stiff increases in public-housing rents, which had been unrealistically low. Subsidized school lunches, still the mainstay of many children's diets, will cost more...
Congress's answer has been to design a strip-mining law that sets stiff standards for reclamation of mined-out areas: if the land cannot be restored, it cannot be mined, period. President Ford has twice vetoed the bill, arguing that it would cut coal production, throw 36,000 people out of work and also raise the price of coal. In his eyes, each state should enact surface-mining laws to suit its own needs. Congress is unpersuaded, though, and will try to push the same measure through this year...
Joel Peters ran into stiff competition from Princeton's Chuck Hedrick and Pierre Gourdon in the 600, but the Harvard tri-captain outsprinted the Tigers...
...Design School (Scott Reid and Associates)--and the cover was drawn by a professional artist in Los Angeles who still does our cover." There were three times as many photographs and illustrations as in the previous issue, and a sharp new logo took its place on a stiff-paper color-coded cover...