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Last week New York's suspense story reached the melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget...
...architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, will unveil the revised architectural plans for the library June 7 at 2 p.m. in the city council chambers of the Boston City Hall...
Upon returning to the Oval Office in Washington at 8:30, he told only Haig and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler of his decision and outlined his plan of action. Loving surprises the way most politicians love parades, he would unveil his nominee with the same kind of full dress performance in the East Room that he had played effectively when he sprung the nomination of Warren Burger as his Chief Justice...
Besides the return of some key players, Harvard will officially unveil the new 4-2-4 formation it tried in Saturday's 3-2 exhibition loss to the Alumni. After anemic offensive showings against MIT (one goal), and Wesleyan (no goals), Munro decided to shift from a 4-3-3 in an attempt to find some desperately needed scoring punch...
Busily at work on a series of drawings and lithographs based on Stonehenge, Henry Moore, 75, was summering at his house in Italy. Back home in England, Mme. Tussaud's Wax Museum was getting ready to unveil a likeness of Moore leaning against a pillar, on the other side of which is a wax figure of Pablo Picasso. Moore had already donated a navy blue suit, shirt, tie and handkerchief for his efRgy and had been photographed and measured by Jean Fraser, the museum's chief sculptor. But after recording the last statistic, she confessed to Moore that...