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...avoids criticizing the government publicly--after all, he says, the money comes from the people, and the people elected the Thatcher government with its particular policies. But he thinks the present government underrates the contribution of the arts to the nation's employment and economic well-being. As Punch columnist Melvin Bragg states in a recent column, a grant from the Council doesn't carry a company like the RSC (providing only three million pounds in a ten to 12 million pound operation), but it helps it o be more solvent and to reach more people with more projects...
...open spaces. They are also separated by one of the most enduring municipal rivalries since Athens slandered Sparta. "Houston," says Dallas Mayor Jack Evans of the grittier rival city, "doesn't wear well." Besides, add Dallas chauvinists, Houstonians are the ugly Americans of Texas. Dallasites, responds Houston Post Columnist Lynn Ashby, "are the Swiss of Texas." What is more, says Houston Businessman Lan Bentsen, Dallas residents "have no sense of humor...
...problem of the press has been very much on the President's mind of late. At Haig's urging, Reagan even telephoned Columnist Jack Anderson from Camp David to persuade him to withdraw a report that the Secretary of State had "one foot on a banana peel." At times Reagan denied there was dissension in his Administration ("Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as an unnamed source"). But of course it was Haig himself, and not a reporter, who said Haig had been subjected to nine months of "guerrilla warfare" from inside the White House...
...strong criticism from a sympathetic supporter, Columnist Safire examined three reasons why Reagan should, in Safire's words, try to deny reality: "The first is that he is the legendary good schnook, who reads inflammatory lines unaware of their content. . . The second is that he is assuming the shiftiness of office and is now willing to mislead the public by blaming the press .. . The third-and the likelihood-is that he is falling into the trap of believing what he wishes were true...
...most illustrious Buckleys were not named in the 43-page civil complaint. William F. Buckley Jr., 55, while profiting as a shareholder in the family enterprises, was not an officer of any of the involved corporations. The erudite TV interviewer, columnist and editor of the National Review had been accused of civil fraud by the SEC in a wholly separate action in 1979 and, without conceding any culpability, had agreed not to act as an officer or director of any public corporation for five years. Also unnamed was James Buckley, 58, the former New York Senator, now Under Secretary...