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...impact at the federal level than might be expected. "People are taking hold of whatever handles they can find," said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, "but it's very difficult to get hold of the handles of the Federal Government." That did not ease the fears of Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell, leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, that social services will be cut most sharply by the economy knives. Mitchell predicted that "every single human-resources program is going to be in danger. Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, the jobs programs...
...least of the problems is where to house the department. Its headquarters staff is scattered among 22 sites across Washington and in suburban Virginia and Maryland. A year ago, even before the department was officially set up by Congress, Carter gave Schlesinger permission to house it in the Forrestal Building, midway between the White House and Capitol Hill. The 5,000 Department of Defense employees who occupied the building protested against being evicted, and not until late April could Schlesinger himself move in. So far he has been able to gather in 200 DOE officials-"We now have a bridgehead...
...guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures and cornfields, laced with urgent streams and dreaming lakes. The earth turns from New Jersey silt to Maryland sand, from Georgia red clay to Alabama's black bottom. Grand estates and hardscrabble farms rush by, punctuated by hamlets as dour as a Grant Wood visage. The voyager is voyeur, peering into the discrete life of the land and its inhabitants...
Villanova and Maryland, the one-two finishers in the IC4As, should be the strongest Eastern teams at the meet...
...piano aficionado connected with the International Piano Archives of the University of Maryland happened to pass by the church with a cassette recorder just before the recital. He went in, heard the beginnings of the astonishing performance-the sort of huge sound that Anton Rubinstein reputedly possessed -and taped it. The discovery was akin to some great archaeological find. The pianist was Ervin Nyiregyházi (pronounced near-edge-hah-zee), a Hungarian-born prodigy who made his debut at six, toured Europe as a Wunderkind and conquered Carnegie Hall in 1920, at 17. Then, following a string of public...