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...ease unemployment. Among the AFL-CIO'S recommendations: revive the emergency local public works program, budgeted at $6 billion in 1975 but not funded since then; restore CETA public service jobs; and create a new reconstruction finance corporation that would extend loans, loan guarantees and tax benefits to hard-hit companies in basic industries. The union also wants to get more help for the long-term jobless by renewing the 13 weeks of nationwide unemployment benefits that the Administration canceled last year...
...past decade the number of dentists climbed 31%, while the country's population rose by less than 10%. Especially hard-hit demographically are the orthodontists. The prime candidates for high-priced teeth straightening are children between 7 and 19. The number of youngsters in this age bracket fell by 4 million. Dentists are quick to point out that fees have barely kept pace with inflation, but the stalled economy has kept people away from the chair...
...Phillies made it 1-1 in the second when Rich Gale dealt a pair of singles to Manny Trillo and Larry Bowa, walked Bob Boone, and played a hard-hit grounder by Lonnie Smith to first as Trillo came home...
...beyond anything in my experience," said Correspondent Paul Witteman, who flew over the volcano for this week's cover story. "The whole terrain had been altered by the force of the explosion, and maps were next to useless." Cor respondent James Willwerth found the roads to one especially hard-hit town - Ritzville, Wash. - closed for 50 miles in every direction, so he hitched a ride in a Red Cross vehicle...
Besides choreography, Balanchine works on everything from posters to hairpieces. He must al ways compensate for emergencies and injuries; the company is hard-hit right now. On the night of the Ballade premiere, both men who dance The Steadfast Tin Soldier, also on the program, could not perform. The company got a little help from an old friend, Mikhail Baryshnikcv. Watching him cavort through the part, one could not help thinking that he, as much as any other dancer, suffered lost opportunities because of Balanchine's illness...