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...civil servant may not continue to hold his job if he takes part in a strike against the Government; and the oath, signed by all federal employees, not to strike. But firing a federal employee is not as easy as a form letter. Two weeks after the first pink slip went out, the matter was still very much...
...million-a-year rate needed just to keep up with those potential buyers. Robert Sheehan, director of economic research for the National Association of Home Builders, believes that the 1980s could still be a very strong decade for housing. But that will occur only if mortgage rates begin to slip from their current record levels. - By John S. DeMott...
...back to Novsibirsk or else Pauline Kael then takes a look at it from the loftiness of The New Yorker and proceeds to chat about Eisenstein and the "true" cinematic revolutionaries like Godard. If it's lucky, Stanley Kauffman will give it three stars in the New Republic and slip in a little treatise on censorship. The film is craftily analyzed for corniness; (Hollywood has invariably done it before; these Russians, of course, have had very little art since Stalin's time), foreigness (Moscow's architecture, clothing and venacular are checked for honest-to-God Communist values. Beware the film...
...will that belief persist after the budget cuts begin to bite, as they certainly will? Said O'Neill, who was in Massachusetts playing golf last week: "Reagan's coalition slipped from 63 Democrats [who voted the President's way on an early budget resolution] to 29, and he had to give tangible goods to get them. He'll slip a hell of a lot further before he's done...
Robert Vreeland, 35, a biologist from Portland, remembered looking up to see some of his partners beginning to slip. Said he: "I yelled for them to self-arrest, to dig in with their axes, but they didn't have time. I braced myself. I could see I was going to be hit. I got my ax in a couple of times, but it came out. It was like a ball of people falling through the air. There wasn't anything I could do." Vreeland and eleven companions survived. Four were killed outright; a fifth died a few hours...