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True, the raffish-brother act has had its more edifying counterpart. Milton Eisenhower, the brains of the family according to Ike, enjoyed a sort of unappointed super-Cabinet status during the '50s. John Kennedy formalized the fraternal arrangement by making Bobby Kennedy Attorney General...
Anthony Solomon, president of the New York Federal Reserve, and Frank Morris, his Boston counterpart, are opposed to any tax cuts now. And former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns urged last week that any tax reductions should be held to a "symbolic" level so that the federal budget could be kept from sinking further into its impending deficit...
Such extensive services and facilities are maintained at the cost of a smaller paycheck for the Soviet worker than for his American counterpart. The average wage for a 41-hour week at the Minsk plant is 205 rubles ($308) a month. But a full-course lunch in the factory cafeteria costs only 50 or 60 kopecks (750 to 900), and rent for a factory-subsidized two-room apartment, including heat, electricity, water and telephone, is a scant 12 to 15 rubles ($18 to $23) a month. Medical care is free, and outstanding workers are eligible for factory-sponsored trips...
...Artists-a closed Socialist Realist shop-is the law on tuneyadstvo (parasitism). An unemployed artist (and all nonunion members are, by definition, unemployed) can be punished with one to two years of prison. Apart from this, the "unofficial" artist must deal with a hundred resistances unknown to his Western counterpart...
...flags, two bureaucracies and two languages. Independence is scheduled for July 30, and London and Paris are hoping that the local government can work out a compromise. "We absolutely refuse to get involved," French Overseas Minister Paul Dijoud said after a meeting in Paris last week with his British counterpart, Peter Blaker, who called for fresh talks with the rebels but also warned that Britain might consider military action if the insurrection continues...