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WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—In a surprise move, the Senate today gave back to President Carter a key part of his energy program—a tax on the use of oil and natural gas by industry.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (AP)—United States businesses sold a record 510.9 billion in goods abroad last month as the balance of trade showed its biggest improvement since May, the Commerce Department said today.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — President Carter said today that he would further delay his tax revision package, making it unlikely that his sweeping proposals would come at all this year.
DETROIT, Oct. 27—The Ford Motor Company reported today that profits rebounded sharply in the third quarter from the strike‐depressed quarter a year earlier.
Eva Vazquez then 23 years old, and Lucy Torres, 20, each drew the “Still Life”—a glass and a half of an orange on a closed hook atop a table. They sketched a chair, a conference table. a furnished conference room and progressed to an Irish setter's head skillfully depicted by Miss Vazquez and a thoroughly recognizable portrait by Miss Torres of the then Soviet Premier, Nikolai Bulganin.
The Public Service Commission ordered the state's 49 telephone companies yesterday to start letting subscribers buy and insjall their own telephones instead of renting them from the companies at monthly rates.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—Faced with stiff House subcommittee opposition, a tough bank reform bill triggered by the Bert Lance affair has been shelved for consideration next year.
TOKYO, Oct. 27—This month, the 10th one of the year, the 72‐year‐old Takeo Fukuda, this nation's 13th postwar Prime Minister, leads the 113 million citizens of Japan in marking the fourth anniversary of a very special
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — President Carter signaled a change in his Presidency today by declaring that the legislative activism of his first year in office would he followed by a period of consolidation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 — President Carter said today that the United States would support mandatory United Nations sanctions against all arms sales to South Africa.
Fixed‐income prices fall modestly following Fed's report that the nation's basic money supply declined S1.1 billion in the week ended Oct. 19. Page D3.
An obituary in The Times yesterday incorrectly stated that “Black Sports” Inagazine was defunct.