Word: robert
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This year, with New York City's budget of more than $2 billion in mind, Mayor Robert F. Wagner went to the State capital in Albany with proposals for $157 million in new revenue, including a tax on legalized offtrack betting. The State--as personified by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Legislature--turned down this scheme and cut new funds down to $125 million. Wagner was thus forced last week to present what he called an "austerity" budget, still well over $2 billion...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, will act as toastmaster. Other speakers will be John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, who ran for Congress in the tenth district last fall; Robert Murphy, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts; and Endicott Peabody '42, who sought nomination for attorney-general last summer...
...other principals range from good to mediocre. Wendell Ede and Ray Reinhardt as the dentist and the schoolmaster are both fine, and most of the other male leads are adequate, but the performance of the women do not come up to the standards set by the men. Robert Skinner's sets, on the other hand, are outstanding. His oft-visited street presents a facade of the town's buildings, and the facade lifts for the scenes taking place in the dentist's office, a peasant hut, a hotel room, the town prison, and a restaurant across the border. Each...
...NOTION OF SIN (217 pp.)-Robert McLaughin-Simon & Schuster...
Denis D. Barber '60 was found guilty last week of three out of six charges arising from an accident in Back Bay on March 20, where he injured Robert Stevens of Jamaica Plain. Barber was acquitted of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving an uninsured and unregistered automobile...