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...Town Wilder brings the usually unseen Stage Manager on stage. We see him suggest the Locale--Grover's Corners. New Hampshire--by bringing in some plain wooden chairs and a couple of tables, to which are added, as needed, a plank and, for a second-story window scene, a pair of step ladders. The Stage Manager also narrates background for us, guides the players, bridges time gaps, comments on what happens, doubles as a druggist, minister and an unnamed the woman (in early drafts of the play he took on several of the children's roles to boot), and dismisses...
...said, in October 1974, "I am not, Emphasizing not, asking you for any increase in gas taxes"? What was a central plank in the economic program he announced last week...
...charter and to discuss major national policy issues. And ostensibly that is exactly what was done. The delegates passed a charter that institutionalized recent party reforms and gave some direction and uniformity to what in the past has been a loosely assembled mass of rules and positions. An economic plank drawn up by the 52-member Rules Committee was accepted. And Democrats split up into day-long seminars to discuss issues ranging from "Government and Human Needs" to "America and Its Role in the International System...
...route to Kansas City, Senator Lloyd M. Bentson (D-Tex.), a presidential hopeful, said "The convention has to result in a compromise--no one gets what they want all the time." He said he hopes to see an economic plank come out of the convention since "That's the biggest issue" facing the country at this time...
...court firmly rejected Nixon's argument that as head of the co-equal Executive Branch of the Government, he was entitled under the Constitution to determine finally the scope of his own privilege. On the contrary, the main theoretical plank of the court's opinion was the assertion of its supremacy in all matters of the law. The Judiciary's power to interpret the law, the decision said, "can no more be shared with the Executive Branch than the Chief Executive, for example, can share with the Judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with...