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...House budget figures by more than $25 billion-a loss of $20 billion in revenues and an automatic increase of $5 bil lion to $7 billion in unemployment bene fits. Conceded New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, a member of the Budget Committee: "There is a substantial aura of make-believe about our prognostications." After the House vote, the budget battle moved to the Senate, where Ernest Hollings of South Carolina has succeeded Edmund Muskie as chairman of the Bud get Committee. A staunch supporter of increased military spending, Hollings is expected to press for deep cuts in domestic programs...
Besides making dozens of rebirthing house-calls--"you can't pull clients into Jamaica Plain"--Hollingsworth spends his time establishing the Institute for Wholistic Living, planned as a center for natural healing that will bring together under one roof experts in "diet, yoga, meditation, massage, herbalism, aura reading, Gestalt and Polarity Therapy, the Bach flower remedies and primal scream, as well as a psychic or two." After that, Hollingsworth hopes to organize a National Guide of Alternative Health Practitioners to "try to put a dent in the American Medical Association's monopoly on healing...
DIED. Serge Semenenko, 76, banker and corporation "doctor" whose flair as an arranger of controversial rescue loans gave his career an aura of drama and mystery; in New York City. The Russian-born financier, who rose from $25-a-week credit clerk to vice chairman of the First National Bank of Boston, was an improbable Bostonian. He traveled constantly and liked to mix business with pleasure in playgrounds like Acapulco and Cannes...
...materials of reality. The show's real subject is the camera's ability to extract from the banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway, the symmetrical vacancies of parking lots, the abject curve in the necks of street lamps...
...took it, four games to one, and for a change have an aura of quiet confidence in the playoffs...