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...real danger to the enjoyment of these cartoons are among those who would analyze them--the bewailings of the falling-off of the cartoon market after the demise of the Saturday Evening Post, the endless discussions over drawing versus captions, even, God forbid, analytical tracings of artistic styles--they all glut the air and remove these cartoons into some sort of exalted humorless nether-region. The Saturday Evening Post had lousy cartoons (e.g. Hazel); drawings and captions balance each other out just fine; and no, I don't think Charles Addams is indebted to Salvador Dali...
...next day Coleman was the first witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where the foes of busing are pressing for a constitutional amendment to forbid it. Coleman opposes an amendment as unrealistic, and indeed its chances are slim. Said he: "If a democratic Government can't resolve issues of this nature without resorting to the Constitution, then...
Among other things, the regulations specify that lenders may not consider sex or marital status in judging an applicant's worthiness to receive credit and that wives who open accounts after Nov. 1, 1976 must be given credit ratings separate from those of their husbands. The rules flatly forbid lenders to ask a woman about her birth control practices or childbearing plans-an intrusive procedure that has been declining in frequency but still exists. Also, as of Jan. 31, a lender who refuses credit must, when asked, tell the would-be borrower why. This point had been eliminated altogether...
...Refusal. But two unions representing state employees went to court to prevent any of their $7.2 billion pension funds from being invested in the tottering city. The court ruled that the legislature did not have the authority to order Comptroller Levitt to buy the bonds. The court did not forbid him, however, from buying them if he wanted to. Despite pleas from Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor Abraham Beame, Levitt showed no such desire...
When Marxist rebels from Zaïre threatened last May to kill three kidnaped students in Tanzania-two of them Americans from Stanford University and the third Dutch-U.S. Ambassador W. Beverly Carter decided to bend a few of the State Department rules that forbid diplomats to get involved in negotiations with terrorists. He put embassy facilities in Tanzania at the disposal of the students' parents, helped them to get in touch with the kidnapers, and did what he could to assist the negotiations, which ended with the release of all of the students by July...