Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court seeking a ruling that Nixon's ban on pay raises already agreed to in collective bargaining is unconstitutional. To set an example for private employers, Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to delay pay raises for civilian federal employees and the military for six months beginning Jan. 1, 1972. THE DOLLAR. In the world's major money markets, the value of the dollar remained generally unstable. Throughout the Common Market countries and in Japan, exchange rates continued to be set as much by the actions of foreign bankers anxious to guard their own currencies...
...CUTS. David Grove figures that "the fiscal stimulus is very small and will have little effect on the economy." Joseph Pechman believes "there is not enough immediate stimulation of demand." He argues that the cuts, which become effective Jan. 1, should be instituted right now, and that the increases in Social Security levies should be postponed until 1973. Walter Heller contends that it was wrong "to feed corporations with the economic raw meat of a $5 billion investment tax credit on top of the $4 billion depreciation give away, and at the same time toss the consumer the small bone...
...strange etchings, too. But with the renewed scholarly interest in 19th century German art, and in the sources of that anonymous stuff called "modernism," it was natural that Klinger should be exhumed. This job, and more, has been done by an elegantly compact show of Klinger graphics assembled by Jan von Adlmann for the Wichita Art Museum, where it opened this month before traveling to Berkeley and Harvard...
...Music of Czechoslovakia (RCA; $5.98). Musicologists and conductors coming out of Prague these days speak fervently of the new school of young composers flourishing there. Here, at last, is convincing recorded documentation, performed by the London Symphony and Conductor Igor Buketoff. Vladimir Sommer's Vocal Symphony and Jan Klusak's First Invention are impressive enough, but the real "find" here is 15 Prints After Dürer's "Apocalypse" by 35-year-old Lubos Fišer (pronounced Fisher). Read musical episodes for prints, and you have a work that does not so much interpret...
...taste for flying. Relatively short (5 ft. 8 in.) and introspective, he runs and plays tennis to keep in shape but seems to like few things better than staying at home with his wife, a former photographer's model, and their four children, Joy, Jill, James and Jan...