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DIED. E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg, 82, song lyricist who wrote the witty, often wistful words to the movie musical The Wizard of Oz and to Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, as well as to such tunes as It's Only a Paper Moon and April in Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative...
Many protest leaders, including Greene, describe the IRS as omnipotent. Says the California tax rebel: "These bastards have so much power they can take innocent citizens and screw them to the wall." The truth is, though, that the IRS's enforcement power has deteriorated. Like the Wizard of Oz, who hid his timidity behind a screen, the IRS tries to disguise its own limited enforcement capabilities by playing up a reputation for toughness...
Miller immediately notified President Carter, and the President ordered the U.S. Treasury to place a freeze on all Iranian assets held by the Federal Government or by U.S. banks and companies either at home or abroad. These assets ranged from 1.6 million oz. of gold stored in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City to a Boeing 747 that had not been de ivered to the Iranian government. The total amount of Iranian funds blocked by the U.S. came to an estimated $12 billion...
BORN. To Malcolm McDowell, 37, British actor (A Clockwork Orange, Caligula), and his wife of four months, Mary Steenburgen, 27, American actress (Melvin and Howard); their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Lilly Amanda. Weight: 8 Ibs. 3 oz...
...fluid oz., vs. 95? for an equivalent quantity of Perrier, and 1.50 for the same amount of water taken directly, uncarbonated, from the tap. The store says it is getting orders for its version of Big Apple juice from hydrophiles as far away as Miami and Houston...