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...June's spectacle of 750,000 antinuclear demonstrators in New York City's Central Park. Outside the Capitol last week, a crowd of about 4,000 resolution supporters gathered to hear exhortations to keep lobbying for the freeze. On the other side of the Capitol were a tenth as many people at an anti-freeze demonstration, pulled together by Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and other conservative groups...
...considering the talents that went into the original, how could it be otherwise? Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were at the peak of their collaboration; George Abbott directed; and George Balanchine did the choreography, most notably the 20-minute jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Rodgers and Hart are gone, and Balanchine is ill. But Abbott, now 95, has returned to direct one of the liveliest revivals in years...
...winners clearly would be the 20 major oil companies that own about 75% of the so-called old gas drilled before April 1977. That gas is tightly regulated under present law. Some of it sells for as little as 280 per 1,000 cu. ft., or less than one-tenth of the price of new gas, for which ceilings are higher to encourage exploration. Under the Reagan plan, producers would immediately be permitted to negotiate higher rates for old gas, some of which has been left in the ground because it fetches such a low price. The smaller energy companies...
...Safire, 53, nears his tenth anniversary at the Times in April, his twice-weekly "Essay" on politics, distributed to more than 500 daily newspapers, is considered virtually required reading in the inner circles of Government and journalism. Says one admiring rival, Robert Novak, co-author with Rowland Evans of one of the nation's best-known columns: "Safire is the most readable columnist in Washington and the one I can least afford to miss...
...most notorious confusion of all surrounded a Core course called Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art." Like a horde of wildcatters racing to the site of a gusher, some 600 students (roughly a tenth of the undergraduate population) descended upon the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall, hoping for a spot in the survey course...