Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman Congressman in 1965, Republican Barber Conable of upstate New York sat in the East Room of the White House, fascinated by the scene playing out before him. Lyndon Johnson had summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
From his bucolic precinct, Conable will cheer Reagan on, though he has some deep differences with the President. He believes that Reagan has the will to put ideas into action. "No longer do people say the presidency does not work," he declares. "One man can make a difference." Ditto Barber Conable for 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives...
DIED. Fernando Corena, 67, Swiss-born buffo opera star who sang 726 performances with New York City's Metropolitan Opera from 1954 to 1978, specializing in such roles as Falstaff and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and winning the delighted chuckles of audiences and critics, one of whom dubbed him "the greatest scene stealer in the history of opera"; of a heart attack; in Lugano, Switzerland...
...charitable contributions $13 billion. Many of these tax benefits are so widely accepted that a true flat tax seems impossible to enact. Even modifying any of the existing provisions is certain to stir resistance from those who would be hurt. For the individual taxpayer, notes retiring New York Congressman Barber Conable, "if the bottom line is that his taxes went up, that is not reform. That is fraud...
Taxes and the deficit are certain to be controversial political issues next year. New York Representative Barber Conable, who is retiring from Congress after being the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, believes it would be best to separate deficit cutting from tax reform and to deal with the deficit first. Says he: "People expect that whatever is billed as tax reform will bring about a reduction in what they pay. But that isn't easy to do if you're starting at the bottom of a $170 billion hole." Martin Anderson, a former Reagan...