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During the ten scene changes, an overhead loud-speaker rasps out a scratchy medley of forties dance tunes. They sound as quaint and old-fashioned as the message of the play and they remain interesting for a while. But, as the play reminds us, being interesting is not enough...
...only thing that kept me awake in the opening stanza was the water that was dripping on me (and others) from the empty balcony overhead. And it wasn't even raining outside at the time. Really...
Weinberger explained that the administration has proposed ending Community Action Agency (CAA) funding because "up to 70 per cent of the CAA funds go to overhead and community organization rather than the program itself...
...view the publishers' dilemma as their problem. The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which created the present Postal Service as a quasi-independent body, stressed that most classes of mail should pay their own way and contribute a "reasonable" share to the service's general overhead by 1976. The service clearly regards that mandate as all important, and never mind the consequences. "I don't see why any enterprise should expect any sort of subsidy," says Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen, 65, who was with American Can Co. for 43 years...
...remember the 1972 spring offensive, when the North Vietnamese army packed its rations, shouldered its rifles and marched south to free its country as American bombers droned overhead. The North Vietnamese issued one general directive, in the form of a poem, part of which follows, "Liberation fighter, spring in Vietnam is ineffably beautiful. Tet is unbelievably epic. Apricot blossoms vie with each other to cheer your feats. Swallows take wing, telling our countrymen north and south of your deeds. Liberation fighter, let off your gun this spring instead of the usual firecrackers. And ornament Vietnam's spring with everlasting beauty...