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...major func tions were virtually brushed aside. Then a coalition of Republicans and South ern and small-state Democrats buried the Clark-Javits proposal, 54 to 28. Ver mont Republican Winston Prouty tried for a compromise figure of $925 mil lion for one year only, which elicited wider support - but not wide enough...
...risks," of course, on which the whole argument hinges. Though the air war might have accomplished more with less restraint, the President's cautious, controlled targeting system has served as a clarion notice to the world that the U.S. has no intention of provoking a wider war. Even so, the bombing campaign, as the committee notes, is "a highly important, integral and truly indispensable part of the overall strategy" of the Viet Nam war. On that point, at least, the Stennis Committee and the Johnson Administration are in complete agreement...
...overall loss is now put at $144 million. For newsmen, the National Safety Council issues forecasts of expected highway deaths over holiday weekends, usually with a prediction tacked on of "record fatalities." What the forecast never says is that the record is due to population increases and wider use of automobiles, and that the fatality rate is usually just as high proportionately on other weekends-holiday weekends are just a bit longer...
...Wider Horizons. "I'm constantly in trouble with London critics," says Williamson, "because of the great variety of things I work into my music. They can't understand how I can drag in all those little ideas from popular music...
...Williamson has tried all sorts of categories. After arriving in London, he worked with twelve-tone Composer Elisabeth Lutyens, but soon found that discipline "stiff and disagreeable." Now his manner is basically tonal, which, he feels, actually affords the composer a wider horizon of dissonance. In another Williamson work produced at Newport, a nonet for five players and four dancers, long sequences of butter-would-melt tunefulness suddenly gave way to a perky hell-for-leather style reminiscent of Stravinsky's acidulous neoclassicism...