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...compensation payments 50% beyond state limits (which now range from 16 to 30 weeks, depending on state laws), with the Federal Government lending the money to the states. But no sooner had the proposal reached Capitol Hill than House Ways & Means Committee Democrats came up with a far more lavish plan. The committee approved (16-9) a bill providing a flat 16 extra weeks' compensation (TIME, April 28), airily ruling out repayment by the states. The Democrats boosted the bill's cost about three-quarters of a billion dollars by the 16-week ruling and by specifying coverage...
Malagodi's party, which has a proud past, is today one of the smallest (13 seats) in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cannot muster sufficient money or manpower to match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
Increasingly, sponsors (and viewers) have turned to the bigger, more lavish, monthly shows, which can afford better scripts, hire more expensive directors, afford big-name stars. The spectaculars are increasing in number, and, at their best, have mounted shows that the weeklies cannot match. As for their worst, TV is discovering what Hollywood has long known: if viewers must watch a second-rate drama, they would rather watch name stars playing...
Next year Bronx High will leave its dirty yellow brick pile (Former Principal Meister will move in with his newly founded Bronx Community College) and take over a lavish, $8,000,000 brain trainery, equipped with special labs for independent student research. Last week the joyous grind for next year's scholarships continued; Math Department Chairman Irving Dodes dismissed a class studying symbolic logic, said wearily and wonderingly: "I can't sit down without kids coming in, pestering me for advanced math books or trying to prove the impossible. It's a continual effort to keep...
...director general, but they must be "cold . . . simple . . . unadorned . . . inexpensive," and consist of "a substantial and visible" chunk of bread. The association ruled out "materials normally regarded as expensive or luxurious, such as smoked salmon, oysters, caviar, lobster, game, asparagus, pate de foie gras," as well as "overgenerous or lavish helpings which affect the money value of the unit." Carriers that have been serving just such lavish sandwiches consoled themselves by reflecting that the ruling, after all, did not affect the chef's imagination. Said a spokesman for one: "We'll serve what we've been serving...