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...same misfortune affects some people every time Social Security payouts are increased. But in the past Congress has minimized the damage by directing public officials not to count a portion of the increase when calculating a pensioner's eligibility for other benefits. Such a directive was carefully included in legislation, introduced early this congressional session, that would have raised Social Security payments 5%. But when Senators and Congressmen decided to boost the increase to 20%, they voted the change as an amendment to another bill, and forgot to tack on the directive...
FOLLOWING THE LATEST stage trend of religion-mongering, Arthur Miller has given us yet another modernization of the Bible, specifically the early portion of Genesis. Despite the recent appearance of so many productions on the order of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Miller's script seems clever enough-or may be just familiar enough--to win sympathy. In a Biblical context, somehow even the worst puns and the broadest slapstick can be funny. As a topic for comedy, the Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless...
FICTION 1-Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (1 last week) 2-August 1914, Solzhenitsyn (6) 3-The Winds of War, Wouk (3) 4-My Name Is Asher Lev, Potok (2) 5-The Dark Horse, Knebe/ (4) 6-A Portion for Foxes, McClary(lO) 7-Captains and the Kings, Caldwell (7) 8-Report to the Commissioner, Mills (5) 9-The Word, Wallace 10-The Terminal Man, Crichton
Since he could not interview Kissinger, Landau was forced to rely on those who had. The biographical portion of the first chapter is clearly indebted to such unacknowledged sources as Joseph Kraft who said very similar things in the January 1971 issue of Harper's Although Landau does not include Kraft in his bibliography and gives the syndicated columnist only two secondary footnotes on one he sets up a Kraft quote as a straw many the Harpers article like Landau's book, stressed the significance of Fritz Kraemer, an Army acquaintance and William Yandell Elliott, a Harvard professor in Kissinger...
...other than opening up the craft and construction unions which employ only a small portion of the work force. Greenfield could offer no specific plans for creating more jobs. Greenfield must surely realize that over 80 per cent of the people on welfare are receiving Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) benefits and unable to work at regular jobs. In 1970 the New York State legislature passed a measure requiring all able-bodied recipients to take public service jobs or risk losing their benefits. About 1 per cent of the state's welfare clients were required to go to work...