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...Beltway Bandits. The Carter White House likes to boast that there are 40,000 fewer federal employees today than in 1976. True enough. But there also happen to be 30,000 more part-time federal employees. Moreover, the Government pays between $4.5 billion and $5 billion a year to private contractors, those burgeoning consulting firms known as the "Beltway Bandits" for their location on Route 495, which encircles the District. President Carter has tried to cut back the use of consultants, but like the other beneficiaries of Big Government, they are getting stronger all the time...
This is no idle boast. The charismatic Walesa, 37, has emerged as a national hero who can mobilize hundreds of thousands of workers. During a five-day tour of southern Poland, he was greeted by large and enthusiastic throngs. The emotional high point came in Cracow, where he was swept up by the crowd and carried on shoulders two miles to the old city's Market Square. There he raised his hand and declared: "I swear that I will not disappoint you in that which we do and intend to do." The gathering of 30,000 responded with chants...
...absurd interludes to the chronicle. The screenwriter Martin Berkeley, in a burst of informer's promiscuity, names 161 names. Judy Holliday, the incomparable impersonator of Hollywood dumb blonds, hires a researcher to check out her own political past. Zero Mostel shakes a grisly cap-and-bell to boast: "I am a man of a thousand faces, all of them blacklisted...
Typical Philadelphia jokes like "I spent a month in Philadelphia last weekend" can never be told again, for last night the city of Philadelphia joined the exalted ranks of the other privileged major league cities--New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston--that boast world champions...
...tormentors by labeling them "scummy and fraudulent" and comparing their technique to Hitler's "Big Lie." The right-wing radicals, Church trumpets, are trying to take over the "entire American political process." He does not go out of his way to bring up national or international issues or boast of his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But he defends his past stands and reminds critics: "Once I was against the war in Viet Nam, and the people of this state were overwhelmingly for it. But I think time proved I was right." When he was asked...