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...weekend trip to Rome for the installation of Pope John Paul I. He even sandwiched in an hour of phone calls between meeting Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin at Andrews Air Force Base. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger buttonholed Senators as they went in and out of the chamber. At one point, he chased Missouri Republican John Danforth up the stairs, then lost him in the maze of third-floor corridors...
...continuing inability of federal agencies to spend money as fast as they are authorized to, rather than any determined slashing of programs. An Administration "hit team" is now examining the 1979 budget line by line, looking for places to cut. Jack Carlson, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, figures that they expect that it will eventually squeeze the deficit to about $35 billion...
Prodded by pressures at home, 103 U.S. firms, including nearly all the biggest ones, have signed a code drawn up by Sullivan last year.* Six months ago, U.S. firms started an American Chamber of Commerce with the aim of accelerating anti-apartheid efforts. "Will it work?" muses the chamber's president, Clifford Lyddon. "In the long run, I guess so, but the blacks are reluctant to take advantage of opportunities because they have grown up in an environment that says shut up and stay in your place." And while their ability to change that environment is necessarily limited...
...golden spurs when they rode to their visits attended by a servant. Their wives were permitted greater expenditure on clothes than other women, perhaps in recognition of the large fees doctors could command. Not all were learned professors. Boccaccio's Doctor Simon was a proctologist who had a chamber pot painted over his door to indicate his specialty...
...Neville Marriner, 54, and Klaus Tennstedt, 52. Minnesota is lucky. It has landed two men who have gained formidable international reputations in a relatively brief time. Marriner, conductor of London's Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra, has "charm and wit and intellect," says one London observer. His 200 recordings, many of Baroque music, have pleasingly brisk tempi and a gay, intimate sound. As music director, Marriner will bring his favorite Haydn and Mozart to Minnesota; his weakness may well be that specialized repertoire. But, says he, "if you want to have any impact as musical...