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...Paula Banholzer, who had a son by Brecht 52 years ago when she was only seventeen. They had a beautiful time together, Paula reminisced to Germany's Der Spiegel. Once Brecht saw Paula at her second-story window and struck up a conversation; when his neck got stiff from looking up, he simply lay down in the street and continued chatting. As for Brecht's boast that being on a swing was as beautiful as making love, Paula scoffs. She recalled that he regularly got sick on a swing. "He had trouble with his stomach," she says...
...Nixon last December seized on the 1899 Refuse Act as a way to regulate the discharge of industrial wastes into U.S. waters. The act stipulates that persons and corporations shall not dump wastes into navigable waterways without first obtaining permits. To get permits, they would have to comply with stiff guidelines on dumping which were to be set down by the Environmental Protection Agency. Last week the EPA threw in the sponge; there will be no national guidelines. Instead, said a terse EPA memorandum, regional officials will set their own standards...
Tudor's mime-laden choreography is ably danced by the ABT soloists. The Juliet of the premiere was Italy's Carla Fracci, whose gentle, girlish way of evoking youthful passion is complemented by the stiff, manly Romeo of Ivan Nagy. If their individual dancing styles do not always mesh, Tudor nonetheless is still able to make disunity work for, not against, the production...
...worrying more about unemployment, the Administration has reverted to considering inflation Economic Danger No. 1. Officially, it continues to insist that inflation is lessening, even though consumer prices in May rose at an annual rate of about 7%. The men at the Camp David conference, however, were scared stiff when they got their first look at new budget estimates. They were calculated on the assumption that the gross national product will reach only $1,050 billion this year, rather than Nixon's unrealistic January forecast of $1,065 billion...
...Humphrey wants to establish a joint congressional committee to review classified material. Edmund Muskie would prefer an independent review board with the power to make documents public after two years. Even if Congress does not want to venture into the thicket of classified documents, the Executive Branch could impose stiff penalties on bureaucrats who classify more than they have to. At a time when Government credibility is in grave doubt, perhaps nothing would restore public confidence so much as release of the information that is now senselessly bottled up in official archives. Some of these mountains of documents might never...