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...passed. This bill, however, differed significantly from the original proposal, which, strongly supported by the AFL-CIO, had given the Secretary of Labor the authority to shut down immediately any plant presenting an imminent danger to employee health and safety. The Nixon Administration proposal, supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, required OSHA to obtain a court injunction to shut down a plant, and hence virtually eliminated the possibility of effective, immediate preventive action in emergency cases. Also, the fines that could be levied for violations of the OSHA standards were smaller in the Administration bill than in the labor...
Most of the opposition to OSHA reflected business's dissatisfaction with the results of the original bill. Spokesmen for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce accused OSHA of promulgating many irrational, unnecessary standards which were related only peripherally, if at all, to occupational health and safety. Compliance with the standards, business representatives claimed, would result in increased unemployment as small firms were driven out of business by the high costs of conforming to OSHA guidelines...
...Favorite chamber works of Ravel and Stravinsky, featuring the Pulcinella Suite and Introduction and Allegro, performed by nine musicians from Music 180. Kirkland...
Virgil Thomson: Music for the Films (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, conductor; Angel; $6.98). Virgil Thomson is best known for his operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All. Among America's serious composers, however, he pioneered the art of writing music for films with his scores for a pair of Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland...
...Congress, is pumping hands and introducing himself as "the picture on that card you're holding." Although the room has the ambience more of an after-church coffee klatch than a political meeting, those present take their politics seriously. The gap between St. Josephat's basement and the House Chamber in Washington seems unbridgeable--but even House majority leader Thomas P. O'Neil (D-Mass.) got started in church basements...