Word: weavers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testifying before a Senate committee last year, then Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach officially put Government spending in the cities at $14.7 billion. In the same week, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reckoned that it actually amounted to $28.4 billion; and Lyndon Johnson, with lightning application of both old and new math, set it at $30 billion. This year, Budget Director Charles Schultze admitted to a Senate subcommittee, the Government is giving out only $10.3 billion in "federal aid payments in urban areas." Even this more down-to-earth figure is probably far too high an estimate...
CENTER THEATER GROUP, Los Angeles, Calif. The Sorrows of Frederick, a new play about Frederick the Great of Prussia by Romulus Linney, will be performed at the Mark Taper Forum until Aug. 6, with Fritz Weaver in the title role. From Aug. 25 until Oct. 8, Duerrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi will be presented...
...back to their 1966 heights. If the rise in interest rates continues, as many analysts expect, it can only siphon funds away from mortgages again. Warns John G. Heimann, vice president of the Manhattan investment-banking firm of E.M. Warburg and mortgage consultant to Housing Secretary Robert C. Weaver: "The fragmented, highly specialized mortgage system, responsible to so many agencies, has fallen behind, never to catch...
...trouble lies elsewhere. And it is not difficult to surmise what happened. Cyril Ritchard is invited to play the rich comic part of Bottom the Weaver. Now you will recall that Bottom and his five fellow artisans are preparing to act out the tale of Pyramus and Thisby as part of the entertainment at the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta. Bottom is assigned the role of Pyramus. Uncontent, he pleads, "Let me play the lion too." He is restricted to Pyramus, but the idea is planted...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m). Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson and Fritz Weaver are featured in The Borgia Stick (1967), the story of a crime syndicate's scheme to invade big business...