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...larger federal deficit. Spending programs began to be cranked up. A bipartisan group of ten Senators, including Hugh Scott, introduced a bill to expand public service employment by 1 million jobs, at an annual cost of about $7.8 billion. In a joint statement, two of the cosponsors, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits and Democrat Harrison Williams, declared: "The nation is moving at alarming speed toward Depression-like levels of unemployment in terms of absolute numbers-the truly human measure." By that they mean that given the much larger U.S. population today, the number of individual...
...17th century in Europe (he died in 1640) what Picasso was to the first half of the 20th. But Rubens' influence then went on, which Picasso's shows no sign of doing, for another 200 years. First there were his ex-students, Anthony Van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Even more important were the French Rubénistes. "From the moment I received it, I have not had a moment's repose," Antoine Watteau wrote to his patron Julienne after he had been given a picture by Rubens, "and my eyes are never weary of returning toward...
Willie will be working with Francis Keppel '38, former dean of the Ed School and former U.S. Education Commissioner, South Boston--born Edward J. McCormack Jr., nephew of former Speaker of the House John W. McCormack and one-time state politician; and Jacob J. Spiegel, a former judge on the State Supreme Judicial Court...
...Senate Republicans, for example, elected Nebraska's four-term Carl Curtis, a conservative and last-ditch defender of Richard Nixon, as chairman of the Republican Conference, over New York's liberal Jacob Javits. Although the Senate Democratic Caucus continued its practice of naming committee chairmen on the basis of seniority for the current two-year Congress, it decided to follow the lead of the House for the session beginning in 1977; at that time the caucus will select chairmen by secret ballot. The Democrats also voted to open all committee meetings and joint House-Senate conference deliberations...
...ASCENT OF MAN. PBS. Tuesday, January 7, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T. The first episode of this ambitious series, Jacob Bronowski's "personal view" of the development of civilization, carries the gloomy foreboding that the viewer may be in for a three-month brush-up course in anthropology-no bad thing, perhaps, but not an exciting prospect either. Bronowski in Ethiopia's Omo Valley musing over the cranial capacity of our earliest ancestors, Bronowski reflecting on the first stirrings of the artistic impulse before the cave paintings at Altamira -it is all ground that other popularizers have covered. Though...