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Upstaged? Having heard none of the drawing-room rumors, most of the pres. played up the wedding as an elopement, hinted darkly that Charlotte had beaten her sister to the altar by two weeks so as not to be upstaged. The truth of the matter was that Niarchos and Charlotte were simply waiting for his divorce-which finally came through (in Juarez, Mexico) a few days before the wedding...
...rival Cartoonist Al Capp's highly pungent Skonk Works. They also emphasize the growing pressures on both industry and communities to spend heavily in an effort to speed up the attack. The Gov ernment estimates that 1) U.S. indus try will have to spend ten times its pres ent $100 million annually for treating waste water if it hopes to end industrial pollution of the nation's rivers; 2) communities will have to spend at least another $1 billion a year to halt sewage problems; and 3) cleaning up the air will cost a stiff $2 billion...
Other works on the program include Omnes Gentes by Jacob Handl; Psalm 84, by Heinrich Schutz; and two motets, Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, by J.C. Bach, and Warum ist Das Licht Gegeben, by Brahms. The small chamber chorus will offer four settings of the Ave Maria by Joaquin des Pres, Schutz, Verdi, and Stravinsky, in addition to the Trois Chansons by Debuzsy...
Challenging this notion is small (1,050 students), Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Its pres ident, Landrum Boiling, observes that "our justification for existence and for charging the relatively high fees we do must be that we do a superb job of teaching." Toward that end, Earlham got a $20,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, under which Earlham teachers can invite experts in their fields to sit in their classrooms, observe their techniques and assess their abilities...
...Last week, in the midst of record prosperity, one of the nation's senior economic policymakers waved the red flag - and thereby showed how both ered and uncertain even the healthiest of bulls can become. With some well-timed but somewhat ill-chosen words, William McChesney Martin Jr., pres tigious chairman of the Federal Reserve System, brought out the mercurial char acter of Wall Street psychology, which finds it hard to accept the idea of indefi nitely continuing good times, even when business is most loudly proclaiming its confidence...