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...coverage has not been substantially reduced. It has also brought what the Administration fondly describes as "grassroots democracy" to the system by giving the nation's 246 local PBS stations the budgetary power to control programming by buying or rejecting possible PBS shows in a form of program "auction." Only those shows winning sufficient financial commitment from local stations will be included in the PBS lineup...
...villain in Mrs. Ware's case is a tax law enacted by the Illinois legislature two decades ago. Drafted with the help of real estate operators, the measure authorizes local governments to auction off a two-month-overdue property-tax bill-if the owner does not respond to a warning notice within three weeks. The buyer of the overdue bill can take full title to the property two years later-again, after giving notice -if the owner has paid no part of the taxes or the interest. Ostensibly, the law is meant to provide an incentive for private enforcement...
...event in art this week is WGBH's annual "Art Night", the start of their fund-raising auction. From 6 p.m. until midnight, on Sunday, June 2, channel 2 will sell off 275 works by local artists--they've been on display at the Prudential Center all week, and you can place written bids up until air time. But it's more fun to tune in and succumb to the lures of the auctioneers (like Kevin White, Sonya Hamlin and other local notables) who encourage you to "Stay at Home and Bid by Phone." The best show...
...agency communicated its displeasure to the author. Undeterred, Marchetti decided in the spring of 1972 to tell all-or almost all. An enterprising literary agent, David Obst, who is also the agent for Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (see THE PRESS) and Daniel Ellsberg, held an auction for the rights to Marchetti's book. Alfred A. Knopf
...bash: a $7.50-a-head, beer-and-chili evening to benefit the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. Entertaining the sellout crowd of 800 were such Gridiron defectors as Senator Ed Muskie, running a bingo game; former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, autographing his doodles for auction (highest price was $1,000); Senator Adlai Stevenson III, taxi-dancing; CBS's Dan Rather, selling kisses for 50 cents; and Martha Mitchell, who offered to call anyone, anywhere, about anything-for $5. At least one Congressman had his consciousness raised. The Rev. Robert Drinan bought a T shirt reading "Trust...