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Sprouting in converted stores, bars, hash joints and likely hallways, the music rooms have taken away the nightclub audience, but nobody is exactly sure why. The 20% federal cabaret tax plainly had something to do with it (instrumental music only, without dancing or floor show, is not considered entertainment under the law, hence is tax-free). The Vanguard's Max Gordon (who also owns a part of Manhattan's still flourishing Blue Angel supper club) blames the shift to the suburbs: "My old customers have been lost to Great Neck." Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar once accused...
Nixon's speeches were increasingly filled with sharp thrusts at the opposition ("The American people aren't going to settle for any warmed-over Truman hash when they can have Eisenhower beef and potatoes") but in nearly all appearances he drew his greatest applause with his intense portrayal of Dwight Eisenhower as a national leader who has applied his personal standards of decency to the business of government...
...into the part of the boy; it .often reads much better than he plays. it. Deborah Kerr, on the other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash house. 1984. (Holiday; Columbia). Things to come, as George Orwell saw them in his clever antitotalitarian tract, written in 1949, have assumed a horrifying political shape by 1984. The State is everything, terror is normalcy, love is a crime. Political shapes, however, are not the kind that lure millions...
...then moved their raccoon coats and Morris chairs to newly renovated Hollis, McKinlock, and Matthews Halls. "McKinlock Hall," the University trumpted, "now caters to '31's palate. We have replaced its musty tone with many delicacies." The delicacies were never enumerated and freshman palates still preferred the eternal Square hash-houses...
...wages, Westinghouse's original offer of five months ago was upped only slightly, from a minimum increase of 23½? spread over the next five years to a round 25?. The give-and-take process reduced the time-study issue-biggest stumbling block in the negotiations-to hash. The I.U.E. conceded management's right to make time studies on nonproduction workers in principle, while Westinghouse agreed to restrict them in practice. Westinghouse also agreed to submit any disputes resulting from the studies to arbitrators, a concession it formerly flatly refused...