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Dalton is 33, which is practically Geritol territory by music-biz standards. But her years have allowed her to absorb some of the hard knocks and low blows that give a good old country tune perspective. She grew up in the hills of east-central Pennsylvania, on the fringes of the mining belt. Her father was a guide on a hunting preserve ("He was a good shot. I grew up eating venison"). Her mother, trained as a beautician, worked counters at local truck stops. During long evenings at home, her father played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and her mother sang...
Harper's (circ. 325,000) had been on the block for nearly a year. Religious and other special-interest groups made inquiries but were turned away as unsuitable owners; other prospective buyers were unwilling to absorb the maga zine's hefty operating losses and its liability of $3 million in prepaid subscriptions. Editor Lewis H. Lapham and two partners failed in a last-hour rescue attempt...
America may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but there is a limit to how far our freedom and fortitude will stretch. With the massive influx of the "lumpen" of Castro's despotic regime, our already ailing economy will have to absorb the shock of thousands of new members of the work force. It is time to close the doors and remedy our own economic and domestic ills...
Most visitors will agree, even if they find the presentation exhausting and nearly indigestible, streamed as they must be through the galleries at a speed dictated by an attendance of 8,000 people a day.* In such circumstances, no one can absorb the scope and the depth of the man. How can one "see" in two hours what took nearly 80 years of such obsessive activity to produce? The "Tut Law," or curse of the mummy, by which works of art become invisible as the museum audience for them expands, will work against this show. That is all the more...
Such industriousness has earned the Cubans considerable respect, but with a new wave of 5,000 to 6,000 immigrants expected, there is a fear that the local economy can no longer absorb them. North Jersey Congressmen, mayors, clergymen and community leaders met last week to form a committee to request federal aid for the resettlement. Says Union City Mayor William V. Musto: "There's no comparison between the economy...