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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill that would exempt college board contracts from the 8 per cent meal tax was filed last week in the Massachusetts legislature but Rep. Barney Frank '61, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said yesterday "the bill isn't going anywhere...

Author: By Brian D. Young, | Title: Bill Would Exempt Board Contracts From Meals Tax | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...However, Frank said yesterday that few legislators agree with Gray. "The sentiment of the Ways and Means Committee seems to be that colleges already have enough tax exemptions," Frank said...

Author: By Brian D. Young, | Title: Bill Would Exempt Board Contracts From Meals Tax | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...lasts depends largely on actions taken in Washington, where the Ford Administration strongly favors expansion of our nuclear capacity. The President wants 200 nukes in operation by 1985 as a key part of his program for national self-sufficiency in energy. "It is time to set aside emotion," adds Frank Zarb, chief of the Federal Energy Administration. "We must get on with the job of utilizing this vital, clean and abundant energy source." Without it, he says, the U.S. would be at the mercy of foreign oil producers, a prospect that he fears could be "devastating" to the national economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Nuclear Debate | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...five songs going at once," he says with satisfaction. Beside the piano is a typewriter to which Paul, a 60-words-a-minute typist, turns to do the lyrics. It is the same machine on which he has tapped out such solid gold hits as My Way for Frank Sinatra, She's a Lady for Tom Jones and (You're) Havin' My Baby for himself. Recently he wrote something for New York, too: "I'm on my way back home to New York City/ On my way to where I used to be/ To leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Anka's Aweigh | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

What follows is entirely predictable and unabashedly vulgar. Inhibitions must be left at the door. Alan Bennett, one of the quartet of Beyond the Fringe a decade ago, has constructed no more than a sloppy farce, but in Director Frank Dunlop's nimble hands it becomes an uproarious kaleidoscope of pratfalls. The Wicksteeds live in a world still superficially Victorian, but underneath there rage fires of frustration fed by the characters' anxiety that if an opportunity arises, their sexual equipment may be unequal to the occasion. Thus every double-entendre is not merely dirty but wistful. The cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: False Premises | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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