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...most workers, however, the main safety net is Government unemployment insurance, and there is a growing feeling that it contains holes that are sorely in need of repair. State insurance funds in New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont and Rhode Island have already toppled into temporary bankruptcy and been forced to borrow a total of $299 million from the U.S. Treasury to keep going. The Labor Department reckons that as many as 30 other states may have to follow suit within the next two years. To keep their systems solvent, some states are now raising the tax on employers. That will...
...last week but, partly because he was recovering from an operation for kidney stones, he shelved it. The Democrats have not even succeeded in drawing up a general policy statement that would lay out possible energy options. Last week a six-member task force, headed by John Pastore of Rhode Island, was set up in the Senate to work out a comprehensive economic and energy policy. House Speaker Carl Albert summoned all the committee chairmen and told them to get cracking on a similar program. In the meantime Senator Edward Kennedy unveiled his own program, featuring higher taxes...
...impact on later art would have to be encyclopedic, and perhaps it will come in 1977 with the 400th anniversary of his birth. But meanwhile, a fascinating exploration of Rubénisme (in Flanders, England and France) is on show in Providence, sponsored by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Organized by graduate students under Assistant Professor Mary C. Volk of Brown, it is the first systematic effort to show Rubens' posthumous influence on Europe theme by theme. It is hard to see how so much territory could be better indicated on a small exhibition budget...
...special point of probing the CIA's involvement in that scandal. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield had not yet settled on his appointments or on his choice for committee chairman; among the likely candidates for the job were Philip A. Hart of Michigan and John O. Pastore of Rhode Island, even though Pastore disavowed any interest...
...onlooker, "has an almost perfect working relationship with the spotlight." She has had a hand in other facets of the show too. It was she and John who thought of casting Old Friend Mark Lawhead, well under 5 ft., as a robot. "He's for the people from Rhode Island," she said. The show is not scheduled to open on Broadway until the end of the month, but Genevieve is already plotting her entrance at the opening-night party. "I think I'll wear white, with a long ermine boa and diamonds...