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Danehy's proposed rent control revision would do away with the present board, and set up instead a review committee "with teeth in it" to prevent unfair rates. He is against more public housing, and feels that some projects should even be torn down because the city is so "super-saturated" with them...
...country Mrs. Perón returned to rule is every bit as trouble-torn and factionalized as the one she left behind. With inflation running at an annual rate of 250%, the economy is in ruins, and there has been an ominous step-up in guerrilla attacks. Thus the major question facing Argentines is Mrs. Perón's capacity-or lack of it-to govern. Even some Peronistas are beginning to concede that her habitually erratic style of governing and part-time presidency will no longer suffice...
...film version fails from the start; it's bad science fiction as well as bad cinematography. Ellison's story does not lend itself to the camera as there are immediate and plaguing flaws in adaptation. A Boy And His Dog is set in 2024, in an America ravaged and torn by the nuclear warheads of the Third World War. The survivors, either alone (solos) or in marauding groups (roverpaks), eke out a savage existence on the crater-ridden surface, foraging for canned food and gang-raping the remaining females. Aiding them in their search for food and sex are telepathic...
...Torn-Up Timetable. Originally...
Ford had planned to follow tradition and unwrap his tax proposals in his State of the Union address in January But that timetable was torn up last week, when Democratic Congressman Al Ullman's Ways and Means Committee seemed to be making fast progress on a complicated package of tax reforms. Beyond revising the tax laws, Ullman expected to extend most provisions of the "temporary" tax cut that had been enacted earlier this year to spur the lagging economy. These lower rates are scheduled to expire on Jan. 1, and without action before then, withholding rates will revert...