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Proxmire, long an unclassifiable loner, is beginning to be an influential Senator. He entered the Senate in 1957 after an Ivy League education (Yale, Harvard Business School), stints on Wall Street (J. P. Morgan & Co.) and in journalism (Madison Capital Times), and three losing races for Governor. As a freshman Democrat, he had the temerity to criticize Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson as dictatorial. A liberal on most issues, he has been conspicuously economy-minded during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Proxmire often chips at public-works projects and appropriations for the space program, has attacked the Government-sponsored SST (supersonic...
...Wall. A new wave of walkouts in the fall could weaken the economy just when there was widespread hope for a vigorous upturn. On the other side of the coin, lavish labor settlements, coming on top of undiminished spending for the Viet Nam war, would surely add to the dangers of inflation...
...middle decades of the 19th century. Nearly all of them were desperately poor; but in a young nation willing to reward industry, they succeeded beyond their dreams, along a route that led from peddlers' packs to high finance. Today, their banking and brokerage houses stand like monuments on Wall Street, and there are symbols, in other permutations, scattered the length of Manhattan: Macy's (owned by the Strauses), Lewisohn Stadium, the Guggenheim Museum...
This venerable institution is as arcane as the balance of payments; its rules are as precisely obscure as the contents of a diplomatic note. To the outsider it presents a blank wall, but to the insider--and the insiders number several thousand government officials, 1200 Washington reporters and numberless foreign governments--a working knowledge of the ways of the informed source adds zest to the reading of the daily newspaper...
...been reduced to a single commentator by Anouilh (as Shakespeare had done with the Chorus in Henry V); but here he is, as cleanly and expertly played by Tom Aldredge, an ambulating master-of-ceremonies, hosting the activities with a hand-microphone that feeds amplifying speakers on the wall, and occasionally smoking a cigarette. At one point he is irresistibly compelled to desert objectivity and intrude himself into the action in a vain attempt to change Creon's mind and save Antigone. It is a stunning moment, and here Aldredge quite rightly leaves his microphone aside. At another point...