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...automatic increase of $5 bil lion to $7 billion in unemployment bene fits. Conceded New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, a member of the Budget Committee: "There is a substantial aura of make-believe about our prognostications." After the House vote, the budget battle moved to the Senate, where Ernest Hollings of South Carolina has succeeded Edmund Muskie as chairman of the Bud get Committee. A staunch supporter of increased military spending, Hollings is expected to press for deep cuts in domestic programs and a bigger Pentagon budget. In the end, the Senate too is expected to produce a balanced...
...some felt that they had been betrayed -and the hostages recklessly endangered -by President Carter. Demanded Bonnie Graves of Reston, Va., wife of Public Affairs Officer John Graves: "Eight deaths for what? I hope to God the Iranians are capable of restraint in this situation." In Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Ernest Cooke, mother of Embassy Staffer Donald Cooke, declared: "I can't believe they did such a thing. I understood, or thought I understood, that it was such a dangerous operation that they wouldn...
...things) of Paris' cafés. He returned to Spain to paint The Farm, 1921-22, which proved he was not too intimidated by his Paris experience: though it had the cubists' flat composition, it was detailed with the intimate knowledge only a farm boyhood could achieve. Ernest Hemingway, who bought the painting, wrote appreciatively: "It has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there...
Guyana Tragedy, which has been adapted by Ernest Tidyman from the Washington Post's quickie book on the Jonestown massacre, is as refined as it can be under the circumstances. There are some name actors (Ned Beatty, Colleen Dewhurst, LeVar Burton, James Earl Jones, Veronica Cartwright) in the cast, though several only have walk-on roles. The re-creations of the story's pivotal events are skillful enough to jog one's memories of the infamous TV news footage. Yet CBS may have erred on the side of caution. The movie's lengthy, dutiful depictions...
...Ernest R. May, professor of History, who teaches the course with Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer professor of Public Administration, and Daniel Yergin, a research fellow at the Center for International Affairs, said yesterday the grant will allow the K-School to "develop a large amount of case material for our class and comparable classes at other schools...