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Hardest Problem. In only about a year in Washington, he has impressed other bureaucrats, Congressmen and oil executives with his quick grasp of complex energy policies, and his appointment brought forth a chorus of praise that he finds almost embarrassing. Says Representative Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, a strong critic of the Administration's energy performance: "Of all the people I have dealt with in 15 years on this problem, Simon is the best. He has a handle on it better than anyone in the Government...
...Senate mounted a vociferous lobbying campaign against Connally, saying they would not vote for the man -whom they described as a fat cat, wheeler-dealer and turncoat-under any circumstances. Even some Republicans sent word to Nixon that they would not vote to approve Connally. Declared Massachusetts Representative Silvio Conte: "I will accept anyone the President sends up except Connally." Conte went so far as to work the cloakrooms against Connally, reminding Northern Congressmen of the oil shortage that their constituents are about to experience. "How can you in the Northeast vote for him?-and a turncoat!" he exclaimed...
Over the years Congressmen have risen up to denounce a myriad of evils: vice, extravagance and, occasionally, one another. Now it is "honey money." That is how Massachusetts Republican Silvio O. Conte waspishly described payments made by the Department of Agriculture to beekeepers who are compensated $15 a hive for bees inadvertently killed by Government pesticide programs. Conte allowed that $15 did not seem like much, but he pleaded with his colleagues to "look at the size of the claims submitted under the program, and you will get a taste of what a honey of a deal Congress has created...
...talks are the first serious discussions between the U.S. and Cuba since relations between the two countries were severed in 1961. Last week the Swiss ambassadors to Havana and Washington, Silvio Masnata and Felix Schnyder, met with Secretary of State William Rogers to deliver their personal progress reports. Said the normally cautious Schnyder: "I think there is a measure of mutual understanding very evident in this situation." Many Latin American diplomats and State Department officers are urging the White House to take advantage of the new atmosphere of cooperation and broaden the negotiations into other areas. So far, Nixon...
...point of the late Joe Orton's play Loot-not the only point, but a prominent one-was outrageous and exhilarating bad taste. Director Silvio Narizzano, no stranger to bad taste himself (Georgy Girl, Blue), changes Orton's cyanide cocktail into a fey demolition derby...