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...called his proposed support prices-including wheat at $2.60 per bu. -inadequate and "cruel." Carter upped the prices (wheat went to $2.90). But both houses of Congress raised them higher still: the House committee put wheat at $3.00, the Senate at $3.10. Last week the Senate approved its more generous Farm Bill by a lopsided margin of 69 to 18-more than the two-thirds that would be necessary to override a presidential veto. Maine Senator Edmund Muskie complained that the bill would add $8 billion to the budget during the next four years...
...Ottawa office said that "because of Margaret's wishes" to "leave the marriage and pursue an independent career" the couple "will begin living separately and apart." According to the announcement, "Pierre will have custody of their three children [Justin, 5, Alexandre, 3, and Michel, 1½], giving Margaret generous access to them." Whether divorce will follow is uncertain, since both are Roman Catholics (Margaret by conversion). "Both pray," the statement concluded, "that their separation will lead to a better relationship between themselves...
What is to be gained by such a transparent attempt to fend off the tax collector with the Bible? Hardenburgh's residents figure that dramatizing the absurdity of the situation will bring relief in the form of less generous exemption laws. Declares Town Supervisor Lester Bourke: "We are seeking salvation...
...handful of actors. The isolated soliloquies and duologues of Shakespeare's play carry over into frequent solo and duo performances of Guare's lurics. The music does not make operatic claims on the actors' voices, but its idiosyncratic Spanish and soul-based timing can be tricky. What with the generous amplification, no one is under much strain...
...Trip. A defendant in Boston, pleased at obtaining a hung jury in his trial for the murder of his wife, refused generous offers from the prosecution to plea-bargain for a lesser charge. A second jury convicted him of voluntary manslaughter...