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...deeply, including federal aid to education and health. Such anguished decisions might have been avoided if the Administration had not pushed Congress into enacting such a deep cut in taxes. But that die has been cast, and there is no way now to balance the budget without pain and uproar . -By George J. Church. Reported by Douglas Brew and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...voicing a vision while making cold-eyed deals. And his campaign fund is brimming: $1.1 million banked, drawing 17% interest. Says State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, no relation and not always a friend: "It appears there's a guardian angel watching over Jerry Brown." But the Medfly uproar is the biggest flap besetting the moonbeam Governor...
There was, but it had not yet surfaced. Students and faculty were on vacation. On Aug. 18, when Sanford sent a letter explaining the proposal to 65,000 Duke alumni, a terrible uproar arose. Professors, pro and con, outdid themselves with historical allusions. The Nixon Library was likened to a Trojan horse ("I fear Government officials bearing gifts") and an archival "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("We will not possess it. It will possess us"). Wits wondered if Duke could call it the Watergate Memorial Library. On Aug. 19 Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money...
...inspired showman, Barr masterminded hundreds of exhibitions that rarely failed to create an uproar. The avant-garde sculpture he imported for a 1936 show so bewildered U.S. Customs officials that they refused to recognize it as art and tried to levy heavy duties. His decision to display such objects as an oval wheel and a fur-lined teacup irked the museum's trustees, and one show devoted entirely to an elaborate shoeshine stand crafted by little-known Primitive Artist Joe Milone nearly got him fired. But he also presented landmark shows on surrealism, Dada, Bauhaus architecture, machine design...
...over Europe the Germans are famous as nude sun bathers. But at home in their own cities a certain sartorial conservatism has long applied. This summer, though, in the city of Munich, a terrible uproar arose as crowds of young nudists began nonchalantly strolling alongside fully clothed pedestrians in the famous 600-acre Englische Garten. The young strippers quickly became a major tourist attraction, even threatening to rival the rosy Rubens nudes in the city's Alte Pinakothek. But the burghers of Munich were not amused...