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OONLY A PSYCHIATRIST can help poor Schoenberg now...He would do better to shovel snow instead of scribbling on music paper." So wrote Richard Strauss in a letter to Alma Mahler, voicing an opinion that is shared by most listeners today...
...Ohio's Marion Power Shovel Co. recently learned, the unavailability of U.S. credits to the Soviets can still cost an American company valuable business. After being invited by the Soviets to bid on an order for ten mining shovels, worth about $30 million, Marion failed to line up financing in the U.S. The Soviets then turned to Marion's Japanese licensee, which had been able to arrange a low-interest government loan for the Soviets. All that Marion will get from the deal is a relatively modest licensing...
...proposal to share $39.8 billion in federal revenues with states and cities over the next six years. They also endorsed two Democratic antirecession measures. One would give $2 billion in federal aid to municipalities in which unemployment has exceeded 6% for three straight months; the other would shovel out $5 billion for public works...
What to do? Other mayors might have applied for state or federal aid and filled out forms until their streets were as buried as those of Pompeii-or garbage-strewn New York (see page 16). But not Kit Irby, 58. Taking broom and shovel into her own hands, she has set out to clean up the streets of Cheney ("A Community with Pride") in time for the county fair on July 31. Numerous citizens have joined in, many of them teenagers, but none has matched the mayor's daily dedication...
...fixing up the house, puttering with the car. But after a while everything is fixed, and there is nothing to do. Says Dave Lee, 25, who lost his job with a window manufacturer in Bayport, Minn.: "I read magazines, I wash the car, I help my wife clean, I shovel snow. I just try to pass the time. It's 24 hours a day, and it's terrible...