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...override the education veto. The Senate was scheduled to vote on the veto this week, and since the bill had passed there without a dissenting vote, the override was certain to carry. Equally predictably, opposition leaders were unable to raise the two-thirds majority needed to surmount the HUD veto; it died with the vote. The two vetoes and the votes to over ride were the highlights of one of the busiest weeks in Government during the Nixon Administration. Other important actions...
Throughout the myriad crises, King continues to exude confidence. "I have no doubts-absolutely none-that we shall surmount our temporary problems," he says. King has been flying the financial circuit, trying to calm creditors and ease the cash crunch. Last week there were unconfirmed reports that some banks would tide King over with fresh financing. Clearly, King is determined not to reign over the liquidation of an empire. The next few weeks will show whether his determination, persuasiveness and agility will be enough to cure the short-term ailments and give King Resources time to achieve what it desperately...
...suggests Esau and Jacob. To this are added a dash of psychedelics and some excellent literary effects. In the early pages, the prose has a deadly metallic precision. When Home goes to Russia, Blum changes his style to a controlled lyricism that quietly points toward a meaning: man can surmount such obscenities as technological soul snatching by confronting his beginnings and forging a new mythology. In Home's case the transcendence occurs during a return to what is literally his motherland. ∙R.Z. Sheppard
...hard to write the life story of a hero. It is even harder if you yourself are the hero. South Africa's renowned heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard did not entirely surmount this dilemma. In fact, it seems at times as if he or his collaborator, a onetime Newsweek correspondent in Rome, found it hard to choke self-admiration down into a deprecatory gruffness. The poor boy who made good, the youth who kept his head when all men doubted him, the Walter Mitty syndrome-all the treacherous cliches of autobiography are there. What emerges from them, however...
...failure of the play is not totally the actor's fault. If Ah, Wilderness is to succeed it must do so because of a director who recognizes the play's defeets and works assiduously to surmount them. Thomas Grucnewald has not only overlooked the play's weaknesses, he has made them shine like a rotten mackerel. The whole produciton becomes a litany of praise for conventional values against the challenge of art and change as envisioned by a failed poet through three manhattans at a Grosse Point cocktail party. The conception of a production is the director's task...