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Just when the President and Congress were eyeball to eyeball on economic and energy policy, both sides seemed to blink. Collision was giving way to compromise last week as the Democrats speedily hammered out a tax cut not too dissimilar to Gerald Ford's proposal. Even though the White House and Capitol Hill were still at sharp odds over an energy package, everyone involved seemed to be looking out of the corner of his eye for an escape from the impasse. "I am more than willing to cooperate," Ford told a group of Democratic congressional leaders. "I believe there...
Ford's willingness to come to the people palms up is admirable. Still, he is in no position to offer soothing syrup. The spreading economic distress now reaches into every home daily, in living color, in living reality, or both. He cannot blink the fact that foreigners now hold significant strings, pulling on the nation's destiny...
Some of the election results made even the Democrats blink. In Wisconsin they took the state senate for the first time since 1893. In Illinois they control both houses for the first time in 36 years, in Ohio for the first time in 15 years. At times it seemed as though any Democrat could beat any Republican. In Illinois an obscure civil servant named Robert T. Lane defeated Jack Walker, a former speaker of the house. W. Robert Blair, the present speaker of the Illinois house and a man who had been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate in 1976, went...
...Hartman, 23, bass guitarist with the blues-rocking Edgar Winter Group. And why not? Hartman is the proud owner of a new set of threads that just may revolutionize the look of a rock concert. Let the Doobie Brothers attire their drummer in stars and stripes that blink on and off in tune to the big beat. Let Elton John wear trousers that explode. Hartman tops them all with the Guitar Suit, a $5,000, one-piece, silverized affair that makes possible a Flash Gordonesque union of man, music and instrument. Says Hartman: "I feel completely different as a performer...
...heist likely to hurt the Chelsea's zany reputation? Hardly, say its most seasoned guests, who for years have known how to blink at outlandish goings-on at the Chelsea. "The incident just gives the place a little pep," observed Composer George Kleinsinger, a 17-year resident. "The Chelsea is still a very personal place, and I like it for that," says Playwright Miller, who lived there from 1965 to 1972. "It has big, quiet rooms. Some of them," he adds with an indulgent smile, "need painting, of course...