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...long struggle between the White House and Congress over national energy policy moved closer to a showdown last week. After waiting out a fruitless two-month truce to give the House and Senate time to wrap up an acceptable package of energy legislation, President Ford ordered a phasing out of Government price controls on U.S.-produced oil over the next two years. The move could more than double the price of about two-thirds of the nation's oil output-a prospect that is anathema to many of the Democrats, who hold commanding majorities in both House and Senate...
...speculating in prices (certainly the shift in rural production from foodstuffs to the more profitable export crop of cotton has contributed to the hike, and Nicaragua's food prices are clearly higher than those in neighboring Central American countries.) Additionally, the housing shortage in Managua remains acute, and a two-month strike of construction workers has halted all rebuilding save that which takes place protected by armed guards. The construction workers, who are appreciably better off than the great mass of urban and rural poor, wanted their wages raised from $9 to $11 a day, and their hours of work...
...small number of taxpayers (1,253 in fiscal 1974) convicted of criminal tax evasion. But he has also urged the IRS's 1,100 taxpayer assistance offices to stay open evenings and Saturdays until April 15 and let troubled taxpayers know that the agency automatically grants a two-month extension of the filing deadline to anyone who asks for it (though the taxpayer must pay his estimated tax liability by April 15). Alexander has further simplified the language of this year's Form 1040, inserted in all notices of audit an announcement that the taxpayer has the right...
...thousands who are stuck with the all-electric homes that the utilities promoted so heavily until the early 1970s. Many of these residents complain that their electricity bills now exceed their mortgage payments. For example, in Union Bridge, Md., Dale and Karen Thatcher are strapped by their latest two-month bill of $572 for their all-electric, seven-room farmhouse. They have unplugged the freezer and the TV, turned down the thermostat to 60° and swaddled themselves in heavy sweaters in a desperate attempt to economize...
...Royal Shakespeare Company is one of the glories of the English-speaking stage. It is a touchstone troupe whose productions linger in the mind as definitive. In its brief two-month stay at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the R.S.C. is presenting three works, a little-known Maxim Gorky play called Summerfolk, a shortened version of King Lear, and an infrequently performed Shakespeare play, Love's Labor's Lost. Here is proof, once again, of the company's complete artistic mastery...