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...said that change would abolish the current rate structure which favors large consumers including big industry...
...caught in open-ended discussions, he clenches his pipe firmly in his teeth-a sign of smoldering irritation. His infrequent outbursts are set off by issues that challenge his convictions. He startled an aide a few months ago by denouncing, in barracks-room language, Congressmen seeking to abolish covert activities of the CIA abroad...
Hearings Begin. This week the boldest move yet to eliminate some major sources of competition for AT&T and the independents will surface in Congress. Exploratory House hearings will begin on a bill that would effectively abolish newer forms of communications competition. Officially, the bill is called the Consumer Communications Reform Act. But because it seems so heavily weighted in favor of the telephone establishment, critics refer to it as the "Bell Bill" or, worse, the "Monopoly Protection...
Proper Records. The reformers also sought to reduce Congressmen's special funds and little extras that could be used to employ a woman with Ray's restricted talents. For example, the group voted to abolish the time-honored "cash-outs" system, under which a Congressman gets to keep any money from expense allowances-such as stationery and travel back home-that is not spent. Theoretically, he could pocket up to $11,000 every year. Under the present system, the Congressmen have 14 separate accounts, which they guard and use like so many cookie jars on the mantel. Obey...
...cheers that are sweeping the Paris Opera mark the triumph of this spring's new sensation: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. They mark the triumph too of the "reformers" who are determined to abolish the exaggerated trills and cadenzas of the Italian stage. Writes Britain's Charles Burney, author of the erudite new General history of Music: "The chevalier Gluck is simplifying music . . . He tries all he can to keep his music chaste." Retorts popular Librettist Pietro Metastasio: Gluck is a composer of "surprising fire...