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...Gordie Nelson...
...Congress is a Democratic proposal to stop using Social Security revenues to finance Medicare and federal disability insurance. Their budgets total $36 billion a year, about one-third of Social Security tax collections, and these benefits have been shooting up in cost. The Democrats, led by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord 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...
...expensive for most people today," says one man who should know. Nelson Rockefeller, 69, started collecting while honeymooning abroad in 1930. Today he owns 10,000 pieces worth an estimated $33.6 million. Last week he announced plans to share his acquisitions with the public -via an annual catalogue of reproductions and a five-book art series to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. Inc. The first book, with about 250 photographs of Rockefeller's collection of primitive art, will appear this fall. Rocky, who has been tending to his family's financial interests and traveling since his retirement...
...Swados' music, it is eclectic and lacks her own signature. Nonetheless, the stage thrums with salsa, country-and-western, disco and blues. The choreography is basic jogger, marathon-style. Nan-Lynn Nelson has the loveliest voice of the evening, but the entire superbly energetic cast deserves praise for throwing not only bodies into the show but hearts and souls, which is always a sweet thing to watch...
...reason for the film's lack of effect lies in a combination of ineptitude and highmindedness. The actors cannot be blamed; they struggle hard, and with occasional success, to humanize a story that is schematically structured like a case history. Ralph Nelson's direction does not help; it is routine, though it is hard to know what could be done with a script that keeps freezing up in order to deliver tiresome sociological sermons...