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...transfusion of $1 million for general support, which must be matched by private contributions. This is the first time that the Met, the premier American grand opera house, has received a sizable federal grant, though public subsidies are routine in Europe. After announcing the windfall between acts of The Barber of Seville on the Texaco-sponsored weekly Met broadcast, Chapin asked his nationwide audience of opera lovers to chip in, even if it was only $1. Privately he said: "This does not solve the problem. Our current gross deficit is $7 million...
...fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means that periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 242% more to use the mails in 1976 than they did in 1971.* Some predictions are even grimmer. Richard J. Barber Associates, Inc., an economic counseling firm in Washington, D.C., says that accelerating Postal Service costs will actually force a crushing 406% rise in second-class postage...
...Minister Aldo Moro, who jetted to Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi to guarantee supplies for Italy. In St. Moritz, the Shah of Iran took time between ski runs to listen to oil requests from German Economics Minister Hans Friderichs and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber...
...calls his "ethnic walk" through home-town Cambridge, sampling opinion while simultaneously wooing votes. As he has every Saturday for years, he stopped at his Chinese laundryman's to pick up the shirts that his wife Millie had left earlier in the week, visited his Italian shoemaker, his barber, and half a dozen other shopkeepers...
...clutched and grabbed by Barber as he attempted to skate out of the Boston zone with 3:30 left...