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Died. Winston Prouty, 65, maverick Republican Senator from Vermont; of cancer; in Boston. A flinty former smalltown mayor, Prouty served for eight years as Vermont's only Congressman before his election to the Senate in 1958. He was a political enigma to most of his colleagues, on the Hill. In 1969, for instance, Prouty provided a crucial pro-Administration vote in favor of the anti-ballistic missile system, then defied the White House by opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell the following year. He also advocated a guaranteed annual income...
...idea is still something of a pipedream. But as New York City's problems multiply, its residents increasingly resent the spectacle of their elected officials pleading with smalltown legislators for permission to change the shift schedules of city patrolmen, retain rent control or decentralize schools. Albany's death grip over how the city raises and spends its own money is an even more serious matter. Thus the merits of independence cannot be airily dismissed. Lindsay's appointment of a commission to study statehood is not really as "childish" as Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests...
...Oscar thought his first pubescent musical "terrible?although not without talent." Sondheim proved to be a good learner. He has written the lyrics (and often the music as well) for seven shows, five of which were hits. Only his 1966 musical, Anyone Can Whistle, a precious fable about a smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with music by Richard Rodgers) failed to pay box-office dividends. The rest of the time has been a steady climb, built on internal verse, infernal verse, trip-hammer rhyme schemes and time schemes, sublime schemes, which began their ascent...
...More often, they would say that they live in a small city, a town or even a rural area. Yet in the broader sense they are true suburbanites, living between city and countryside, geographically the middlemen between densely populated urban cores and the expanses of what remains of rural, smalltown America...
This year the smalltown, all-American hero found himself outhustled and drastically outspent (by an estimated $1.25 million to $300,000) by Cleveland Lawyer Howard Metzenbaum, 52, who sold out a prosperous airport-parking business for some $20 million...