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...committee cleared eight other Congressmen of misconduct, including House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Majority Whip John Brademas. O'Neill allowed Park to throw two birthday parties for him at a cost of about $7,500; Brademas accepted $2,950. Nonetheless, the committee found that neither had violated any laws or House rules. The report wound up the House investigation for the most part, and the results seemed likely to gall Republican critics. The next step is for the committee to schedule a hearing tantamount to a trial. If the four Congressmen, who deny any wrongdoing, are found...
...names are skirting Boston this weekend, but some of the finer local groups should make up for the loss-and at a much lower cost...
...main elements are now familiar: the White House is to veto inflationary spending bills, reduce the cost to business of Government regulation and aim to start an era of tighter budgets, declining deficits and moderate, less inflationary economic growth. Meanwhile, the Government will plead with business and labor to hold price and wage increases below the average of the past two years. All this fits Miller's ideas so well that there is speculation that he and Carter have struck a bargain under which the Administration practices tax-and-spending restraint and Miller refrains from a stern hold-down...
These, however, are obtained at a heavy cost in tedium. It is not merely that the brilliant material from the Peking Opera-that highly stylized mixture of comedy, acrobatics, music and mime that really has no Western equivalent-and popular Chinese dances-they put one pleasantly in mind of Radio City Music Hall choreography -are embedded in an evening in which an earnest soprano hymns the joys of revolutionary struggle, and musicians tootle and plink away on strange-sounding instruments. Nor does the dull excerpt from a revolutionary ballet showing a young woman abused by the minions of a wicked...
Until that day, however, the cost of anchors will probably soar even higher, if only because both anchors and their bosses know that stations can afford it. "Obviously there's a limit to what we can pay, but we haven't hit that limit yet," admits WNBC's Fein. WABC's Roger Grimsby may reach $300,000 when his new contract is signed this year, and Station Manager Nelson of WBBM predicts that salaries of top anchors will hit $500,000 within the next five years. Says one KNBC newsman: "Remember when you were...