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SLUGGISH, vacillating and quarrelsome throughout its two years of life, the 91st Congress could not even muster the means to die gracefully. It did not so much expire as commit suicide, victim of its ineffectual procedures, disagreement over priorities and inter-chamber acrimonies...
...others, they assembled at Carnegie Hall for a rehearsal with Conductor-Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider. "It's not warm enough," said Schneider after a few bars, and he was not referring to Carnegie's central heating. That afternoon, they were all downtown at The New School rehearsing chamber music. "Your pizzicato sounds terribly dry," complained Violinist Felix Galimir to a group in one classroom. In another room Cellist Mischa Schneider (Alexander's brother) exhorted, "Sing, sing, sing...
...PHILIPPINES are also losing income. Says Manny Angele, a director of the Junior Chamber of Commerce: "We have benefited from the war in Viet Nam, and now it's going the other way." And at the worst possible time. The country has a $1.5 billion foreign-exchange debt, and a 15% unemployment rate, which will increase when layoffs hit many of the 10,000 Filipino construction workers at U.S. bastions elsewhere in Asia. Many have been earning ten times as much as they might get at home. Simultaneously, the U.S. is pulling a quarter...
...need. Among the leaders of this unusual bit of interstate cooperation are Bartlett Cram, industrial consultant; Hamilton South, a former Marine brigadier general who is now a vice president of Albany's National Commercial Bank and Trust Co.; and Clifford Barnes, executive vice president of the Rutland, Vt., Chamber of Commerce. Their plan: tie the "Appalachia of New England" together with a 367-mile superexpressway from Amsterdam, N.Y., to Calais...
...Equally dazzling, considered as illustration, is Duane Hanson's tour de force of social realism. "The content of my sculpture," he recently declared, "is derived from my feeling of despair. Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time." So his work makes up a chamber of all-American horrors: lifesize, startlingly real figures cast in Fiberglas and polyester resin. A group of Bowery winos sprawl filthily on a littered sidewalk; a dead motorcyclist, hideously mangled, lies pinned under his wrecked machine. In Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America on vacation...