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...gathering because, as one put it, "members of Congress were getting back to us and asking 'Is the President really still committed?' " Reagan put that question to rest by walking into the meeting sporting a 6-in.diameter lapel button shaped like an octagonal stop sign and bearing the words HALT THE DEFICIT. Said one participant: "He sounded as if he was really up for making a deal...
...enthusiastic. Several labor leaders charged that the wage freeze hurts their members, and one union official openly threatened to sabotage the economic plan. "We have no choice but to take some kind of action," said Raul Ravitti, the secretary of the railroad union. That attitude has blocked attempts to halt inflation in Argentina for years...
...exhibition disappoints on any score, it is only by coming to a halt in the mid-1950s, although Kertesz did not. The weighty catalog, written by Co- Curators David Travis and Weston J. Naef with Sandra S. Phillips, provides an admirable overview of the three decades in which Kertesz did most of his best work. But his later pictures are often no less finely conceived, especially those he made after retiring from House and Garden in 1962. Shows like this act as a catalyst, however. In New York City, for instance, the Susan Harder Gallery is showing his pictures...
...those kind intentions came to a halt last week. With just five months left in his first term as mayor of Cambridge--the culmination of this five-term city councilor's career--Russell ended his tortuous bout with throat cancer last Sunday night and died a youthful...
Despite the Administration's steadfast opposition, the vote was not even close. With 56 Republicans joining virtually all of the Democrats, the House last week passed, 295 to 127, a bill to impose economic sanctions on South Africa. It would ban new American loans and investment there, halt computer sales to the government and end the importation of Krugerrands unless South Africa begins to take explicit measures to reform its apartheid system. The day before, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee had voted 16 to 1 to approve a similar, though less harsh, proposal...