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During its ten months in office, the Carter Administration has put together an economic policymaking apparatus that often seems to be running a Washington replay of the classic Abbott and Costello baseball routine "Who's on first?" As the President and his aides have zigged and zagged-proposing and then abandoning a $50 tax rebate, touting a major tax-reform program, then delaying it and shifting the emphasis to tax cuts-businessmen, brokers and economic forecasters have complained that the Administration's economic voice is muffled and mystifying...
Sweet and Guarded. Such perfectionism does not mean that De Niro is all work and no play, though it is some times a close thing. He is married to Actress Diahnne Abbott, whose torchy ren dition of Honeysuckle Rose in New York, New York upstages Liza Minnelli's belting. He is the demonstrably proud fa ther of chubby, seven-month-old Raphael (notes Papa earnestly: "He's been laughing since he was a month...
...various plans being made to refine the oil, some of which cannot be handled by existing West Coast facilities, were reported by Washington Correspondent Don Sider. The description of the pipeline itself, with its adjoining highway for trucks and its walkways for caribou, came from our Alaska stringer, Jeanne Abbott, who has traveled its entire length. She says the pipeline has transformed her state, making "the old casual frontier style a quaint backdrop to a fast-paced urban way of life...
...naming it for the Lowell family which had been close to Harvard since the 18th century. But then House master Julian Coolidge on his own got hold of the right people." Above the iron work in the main gate, he weaved, very covertly, the initials 'ALL" for President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. All the time he never dared asked Lowell if he noticed it. (Of course, Perkins adds parenthetically, Lowell must have noticed it because he noticed everything.) "Mr. Lowell was perfectly capable of having the initials removed." But he never did and they remain there today...
...Best Seller List, he spent the next 15 years churning out a seemingly endless series of high-priced sequels, which lacking better titles might just as well have been called Son of Advise and Consent, Return of Advise and Consent and so on ad nauseum. But by the time Abbott and Costello Meet Advise and Consent hit the bookstores two years ago, the public seemed to be growing weary of the sport. So Drury settled on what was his first "original" of the decade: an historical novel about politics in ancient Egypt. He clothed his Secretary of State...