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...Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and White House Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat that without aid Chrysler would soon cease to be a major force in the U.S. car market. He repeated this two weeks ago to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long and House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman. Riccardo asked for tax relief that would bring an immediate cash refund to the company...
...audience to grow up to them. While this process takes place, another pleasure is promised. Mirabell foretells a concluding sequel, when the angels themselves will speak. Since Merrill, 53, already writes like one, it will be hard to wait for what they have to say. NATURAL HISTORIES by Leslie Ullman Yale University; 53 pages; $8.95 hardcover, $3.95 paperback
...Yale Series of Younger Poets has produced such distinguished alumni as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser. This year's winner, selected from a field of 475, is Leslie Ullman, 31, a college teacher now living in Kansas City, and she has already cleared the first two hurdles facing all beginning poets: having something to say and saying it well. Ullman stakes a claim on the borderline between the real and the imagined. Her people, mostly women waiting for something or someone, are mercurial consciousnesses flowing smoothly from past to future or recording temperatures that have...
Such encounters haunt the mind after the words are over. Ullman's fluid imagination marks her as the one she addresses in a poem: "You no longer know a difference/ between question and travel...
...advancing by compromise than confrontation. After whining a seat in Congress from an affluent and largely Republican district of Tulsa in 1972, he was assigned to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1974. When the tax-cut bill bogged down in the committee last summer, Chairman Al Ullman asked Jones to see if he could find a compromise. Jones pieced together a combination of general tax reductions and capital-gains cuts that won the committee's endorsement. When the legislation came to the House floor, he led a coalition of center-right Democrats that helped pass...