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...Easter season had a special significance this year for the worshipers at Llandaff Cathedral in Wales. Gathered to witness the hallowing of the cathedral's restored nave, which was almost completely destroyed in a wartime bombing, they also watched the dedication of a striking new statue commissioned for the occasion. The sculptor: Sir Jacob Epstein, the U.S.-born artist who moved to Britain and became one of the world's greatest living artists. See ART, Of Hope and Peace...
Last week the budget storm was sweeping over everything in sight. The Administration seemed more than willing to put off decisions until after Easter, and the 85th Congress had enacted virtually no major legislation-but the House of Representatives had already worked its budget-whacking way well past the $1 billion mark (about half of which, admittedly, would have to be restored with supplemental appropriations before the end of the fiscal year). From extermination of the South's fire-ant plague to slum clearance, all legislative eggs were candled by one light: What will it cost...
...Simple Thing. Alarmed at the reaction and convinced that Summerfield was not bluffing, the House Appropriations Committee rushed through an approval of $41 million, and privately urged Summerfield to postpone his decrees on the promise that the House itself would virtually meet his demands before Easter recess this week. But Summerfield stood fast. Sniffed Clarence Cannon: "He's been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead...
WASHINGTON, April 18--Congress got itself untangled from a welfare appropriation controversy today and then quit work for an Easter recess until April...
Some of Diamond's colleagues also heard from last week: ¶J Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other sounds are the planets"), the work moved with melodic simplicity, derived its main effects from the repetitive. Oriental-sounding accompaniment which has helped to distinguish Hovhaness' output from more technique-tortured works of his contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered...