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...Right; the capital belongs to all Americans, although preferably not in bits & peeses. It would moreover be bad Politicks to disinvite the entire Country. Maybe your Luck will hold and most Everyone will have made other plans for that day. If not, the only advice I can proffer - now that you have stepp'd forthrightly into a potential Swamp - is to pray (a Skill of yours I much admire) and bann the consumption of intoxicating Spirits. You may remember one of my Famous Sayings: "One man with courage makes a majority." Much of my early life was spent...
...David Storey's plays, this one, bravely produced by the Manhattan Theater Club, is the strangest. In Home, The Changing Room and The Contractor, each of which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award as the best play of its season, Storey austerely refused to proffer any hints as to the specific meaning of the work. In Life Class, he scatters clues with abandon, rather like confetti at a wedding, which often blinds viewers to the event it is intended to celebrate...
...suggested savings ideas ranged the gamut from what Hall terms the "silly"--a "lights-out" campaign, for instance--to more "serious and substantial" ideas that proffer savings of more than $100,000 each...
...from some state Republican leaders to back him for Governor. A former mayor of Bangor, he handily won election to Congress in 1972 and was given a seat on the Judiciary Committee. This year he was the sole Republican to join committee Democrats in rejecting President Nixon's proffer of transcripts instead of tapes as final evidence. A moderate Republican with a youthful following, he has sponsored social legislation such as the nursing-home patients' bill and the newsmen's shield...
Prices have been especially high for the fall, and the discounts that network salesmen traditionally proffer to sweeten the deals have been small. One minute of commercial time on CBS's All in the Family had a record list price of $128,000; a minute on NBC's Sanford & Son commanded as high as $90,000; and a minute on ABC's Marcus Welby, M.D. cost $76,000. Total prime-time advertising sales so far in 1973 are running 15% ahead of last year. Says Mike Weinblatt, NBC-TV vice president of sales, the record bookings...