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...houses have been racing against an Easter-recess deadline; the legislators do not want to miss their two-week holiday. The tax-cut plan has been complicated by inclusion in the House bill of an amendment to kill the oil-depletion allowance, a move that Senate conservatives oppose. The outlook, though, is for passage of a tax and a compromise reduction in the oil-depletion allowance within two weeks-even if Congress has to postpone part of its recess. Probable size of the tax cut: about $27 billion...
...many supermarkets, the usually frustrating chore of shopping for food has in recent weeks taken on something of the serendipitous air of an Easter-egg hunt. After years of seemingly nonstop prices, the costs of a growing number of items-eggs, mayonnaise, turkey, tuna, canned fruit-are actually turning down. Though the evidence is still spotty, the long and painful surge in food prices at last appears to be waning...
...proposals have the private approval of the State Department but not of the USIA'S current chief, James Keogh, who argues that the changes would "fragment" USIA activities. Congress will not discuss the recommendations until after Easter, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee starts hearings on the USIA budget...
Short-order success is nothing new for the Alabama-born lawyer. Dees has been an acquisitive competitor ever since he won childhood Easter-egg hunts by getting other kids to give him their eggs in return for a bite of the chocolate prize. During his undergraduate and law-school years at the University of Alabama, he and a partner parlayed a birthday-cake agency and other enterprises into a six-figure business. The two then put off practicing law to set up a marketing group that sold specialized cookbooks, among other things. It soon grew into one of the South...
...Luxury, Cicely Tyson as Cat, while Elizabeth Taylor plays Light, Witch, Mother and Maternal Love. Director George Cukor's difficulties in communicating with Soviet artists and cameramen has threatened the film's projected summer completion. "I'm sending for my children to be with me for Easter," Mother Taylor told Fonda. "And Christmas...