Word: gone
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Burns, who is 73, has made clear he wants to keep his job, and lately he has gone out of his way to speak well of the President. Though he has criticized Carter's energy, Social Security and tax-reform proposals, he gave the President a cordial pat on the back in a speech last week. Carter, said Burns, "fully appreciates the importance of substantially lessening the psychological and financial obstacles to business investment. I anticipate that decisions in Washington will at last reduce uncertainty, improve the state of business confidence and encourage capital formation...
...local priest's house, as they tried to peddle it secretly to European art dealers for $200,000. A Roman antique dealer tipped Italian officials off to the statue's existence. But when police raided the priest's house in 1964, the bronze was gone. In a lengthy court fight, the priest and the three cousins were acquitted of illegally receiving archaeological property belonging to the state. Italy's supreme court ruled that the statue may have been found in international waters and was therefore not necessarily state property...
...Communist art should reflect "the facts of revolutionary life." Carrying out this new literary policy, the People's Literature Publishing House has reissued Pa Chin's famed 1931 novel Family, a saga about the authoritarian family system in pre-Communist China. A kind of Chinese equivalent of Gone With the Wind, the novel was the basis of many film and theater versions until it disappeared from circulation in 1965. In a postscript to the new edition, Pa Chin, 73, has obligingly provided a dutiful apologia for the novel's political mistakes, saying: "I noticed some...
...coal users to settle quickly. As of early November, the users' bins were overflowing with 150.1 million tons of coal that had been stockpiled in anticipation of a strike. Electric utilities held a 90-day supply, and they could switch to oil-fired reserve boilers when that is gone. Steel mills had enough coal to feed their coke ovens for 50 days, and major industrial users had a 44-day stockpile...
...Washington politicians for more than three decades. Says Block, whose frequent quarry was the jowly, bushy-browed Richard Nixon: "My cartoons are opinion pieces and are recognized as such. My opinion." To honor the Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist, the National Press Club gave him its Fourth Estate Award, which has gone in the past to such heavies as CBS's Walter Cronkite and the New York Times's James Reston. The 68-year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans to keep at it for "20 or 30 more years." Now that he doesn...