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...Winter's Tale, a 'snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." He has seen a lot of theatre, he is young, and he is eager to try out a lot of ideas for himself. The result is a patchwork of periods and styles just as much as the plastic-covered crazy-quilt robe that King Henry dons in his first scene. Even the costumes (executed by Jeanne Button) run from period Renaissance garb through World War I gear and World War II uniforms to a present-day sweatshirt with Ché Guevara's face on it. But make no mistake about...
CONGLOMERATE MERGERS. Both the White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress are both investigating them. That displeases some, but by no means all, businessmen. Among the most outspoken foes of conglomerates are old-line business leaders who are fearful of being taken into crazy-quilt mergers. Last week Nixon's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, said that his department may bring suit to break up some conglomerate mergers that have already taken place. McLaren thus goes beyond his Democratic predecessors, who showed no inclination to test their legal power to fight conglomerates. If McLaren sues, he will invoke Section...
...Matter of Taxes. About 90% of the action involves conglomerate corporations, those multi-industry companies whose desire to acquire often produces crazy-quilt mergers. Alarmed critics complain about shaky financial foundations, untested managements, dubious use of tax loopholes and overconcentration of economic power. Last week conglomerates ran into simultaneous and serious attack from both Congress and the Nixon Administration. The assault will almost certainly lead to new laws to control the conglomerate movement. "We're going after this," says a ranking White House adviser. "Otherwise, we'd have an economy like the Japanese, with certain large families owning...
...spaces and all the other perquisites of office. There were reasons for the glut. Rumor was intent on maintaining as broad a base of political support as possible, and his crowded Cabinet represented nearly every faction in his lumpy Center-Left government. Despite the skepticism that greeted the crazy-quilt coalition, however, the formation of a government was no small achievement in itself, in view of recent intraparty strife and rising domestic turbulence. Last week strikes and demonstrations by millions of workers and students broke out from Sicily to the industrial North...
While it is necessary to discount such hysteria and maintain a sound historical perspective, it is still obvious that the U.S. must have gun legislation. Though states and localities have a bewildering crazy quilt of 20,000 weapon laws, only two are on the federal books. One is the National Firearms Act of 1934, taxing interstate shipments of such gangster-style weapons as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. The other is the pallid Federal Firearms Act of 1938, prohibiting interstate gun shipments to felons. In 30 years, Congress has failed to enact a single new gun bill, thus allowing...