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This particular press kit heralded the homecoming promotion of Peter C. Johnson, whose first album, Unique, is being released on A&M records. A&M was holding the promo event at the Garden Gym, a time-worn boxing gym next to the Boston Garden...
...federal budgets go, the one that President Ford will submit to Congress this week resembles its predecessors in its time-worn definition of just how big the Government must be to meet the needs of the nation. The answer seems to be: bigger. The President called for federal spending in fiscal year 1976, which begins next July, of a record $349.4 billion. That would be an increase of 11.5% over this year's level, even though Ford is proposing almost no new programs except in the energy area. To keep outlays from rising even higher, Ford also called...
...while the rabble, with their time-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, Lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps...
...sure, Nixon is on the defensive for the instant. But his rattlesnake hatred of a free press is only scotched, not dead. The threat to us remains, latent and anxiety-producing. We do not think that the time-worn old slogans about "The people's right to know" are enough to make the people really give a damn...
...cutting edge" of a campaign that eventually suppressed freedom and democracy as well? My own reading of history is that democratically elected leaders who moved toward dictatorship (e.g., Adolf Hitler) have had a funny habit of turning their first attention not toward art, but toward politics, toward such time-worn methods as declaring states of emergency, outlawing opposition parties and disbanding parliaments...