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When the 92nd Congress finally adjourned last week, the gap between performance and promise yawned wide enough to engulf not only the lawmakers but the President as well. Of Nixon's six goals, only one had passed as requested: his landmark revenue-sharing bill that will provide $30.2 billion to state and local governments over five years. Two others, the reorganization of the Federal Government and the creation of a national health-insurance program, never even made it to the floor of either the House or Senate. A fourth, welfare reform, was killed three weeks ago, largely because...
...architect who builds a famous religious shrine. Near the end of the war, his son, a demolitions expert, blows up the shrine unnecessarily because he is sick of the church's tolerance of the Nazis and disgusted by those who care more about the survival of their landmark than about the victims of the war. The Clown concerns the emotional collapse of a fellow who simply cannot accept the smug new prosperity. A new novel, Group Portrait with Lady, about the effects of the war on a very complex woman, will be published in the spring...
...Congress makes excellent and sobering reading as a candid personal history of a somewhat impersonal institution. The book is a welcome landmark in the morass of literature on Congress. Making its points with control and dignity, it is inside dope that neither numbs nor oversensitizes...
...lagged in hiring and promoting blacks and members of other minorities. Yet the 1964 Civil Rights Act expressly forbids any such discriminatory hiring policies by Government contractors like AT&T. Last week the General Services Administration, which monitors contractors' employment practices, worked out what it called a "landmark" agreement with AT&T. Under the new pact, the company will hire and advance thousands of women workers and minority-group members over the next 15 months...
Died. Andrew Mallory, 37, subject of a landmark 1957 Supreme Court decision that extended the rights of criminal suspects...