Word: waxman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THAT CONGRESS has been alerted though, it has decided to shelve the issue and "study" the problem some more. Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) and ranking Republican Tim Lee Carter (R-Ken.) "have to be convinced first by public pressure," says one subcommittee aide, before Congress and its Health and Environment Subcommittee even begin to pressure the three delinquent regulatory agencies and a negligent chemical industry...
...Tsongas opened his practice in his home town of Lowell, Mass., where his Greek emigrant grandfather had settled, and won his first election to Congress in 1974, by defeating Republican Edward Brooke. Considered to be one of the party's rising young liberals, Tsongas has strongly supported the Kennedy-Waxman national health plan and has sharply criticized both Carter and the Congress for failing to develop an adequate energy program. Says Tsongas: "The U.S. is going to have to make serious attitudinal adjustments toward lifestyle on the energy issue, and it will not do so without leadership...
...Shiela Waxman plays piano works of Chopin, Bach and Schubert at Adams House...
...would seem the question is who didn't like Don Bolles? Fingers point at Ned Warren, born Ned Waxman in Boston, ex-convict who spent six years in Sing Sing for taking $39,000 to produce The Happiest Days, which never ran on Broadway, a la The Producers and a hot shot land promoter during the '60s boom. In 1967, a little more than a year after he left it, his company, Western Growth Capital, went under, leaving hundreds of investors holding the bag. None have been compensated. Nobody went to jail...
...those Busby Berkeley production numbers. No subsequent recordings of the songs quite recapture the tinny excitement of the original scoring as it was caught by primitive sound systems. But the record devoted to the work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors toward The Treasure of the Sierra Madre can one realize how much the music contributed both to the original success of these...