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...report expresses concern over the quality of Loeb productions and says, "Courses for credit could also help lessen the present disparity between the quality of Loeb productions and its extraordinary physical plant, a disparity that questions its future...
...production's only real weakness lies in the unsatisfying finale. Presented "just as Gilbert wrote it," the ending seems forced, almost hurried, although Bonn tries to lessen the perfunctory note with sensitive staging. Hannah's prominent grief, for example, nicely mitigates the atmosphere of mechanical, happily-ever-after celebration. Nevertheless, the production could have punched or prolonged the moment--brought in the chorus, perhaps, to ooh and ah as Robin explains how he's "broken" the curse...
...order: the company must not only stop making the claim but specifically advertise that it is not true. In its next $10 million worth of Listerine ads-about a year's budget-Warner-Lambert must insert this statement: "Listerine will not help prevent colds or sore throats or lessen their severity." In the course of its review, which began in 1972, the FTC found that Listerine was no more effective in combatting colds than warm water. Doubtless Warner-Lambert will bury the admission as inconspicuously as possible in ads declaring that Listerine does cure bad breath-another old claim...
...notion of an independent-or, as Joseph Pulitzer called it, "indegoddampendent"-press takes care of all that really needs taking care of. Dropping the adversary label might diminish the justified sense of unfair treatment felt by so many officials. It might even lessen the press's own complacent tolerance of so much of the jostling and hectoring behavior that, when seen on television, the public finds so objectionable...
...Nelson and Illinois Representative Abner Mikva, would pay for these programs from general federal revenues. Massachusetts Congressman James Burke, the chairman of a House subcommittee on Social Security, has proposed that one-third of the Social Security system's cost be paid from general revenues. This change would lessen the tax bite on most Americans" paychecks. The reason is that the Government's general revenues come chiefly from income taxes, which are assessed more broadly than Social Security taxes. For instance, most Government workers do not participate in the Social Security system; nor are taxes for it levied...