Resignations and awards fill weekly Harpers Magazine and arts notes
Harpers Magazine announces the resignation of editor Willie Morris after four years amid disputes with business management and controversy over Norman Mailer's Prisoner of Sex. In other items, Mona Van Duyn responds to beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and Jiminy Stewart is named Harvard Hasty Pudding man of the year as Carol Channing wins woman of the year.
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Harpers Magazine
Willie Morris
Morris
Norman Mailer
Mailer
Mona van Duyn
Allen Ginsberg
Jimny Stewart
Harvard University
Hasty Pudding Theatricals
Carol Channing
Reagan Aid Plan to HEW Chief Seeks Federal Waiver
Gov. Ronald Reagan’s welfare reform plan seeks a federal waiver from health, education and welfare rules. A key section would cost the federal government an extra 204 million dollars yearly via Medi-Cal, boosting California’s federal match from 523 million to 727 million. Secretary Elliot Richardson would evaluate the proposal to secure waivers needed.
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Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
U.S
California
Medi-Cal
Court Gets Calif Aid Challenge
The California Supreme Court hears a challenge to the Reagan administration plan to reshape AFDC welfare to fit federal rules, with a decision expected by mid March. The federal government warns of about $700 million in lost funds if California does not conform by April 1.
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Sacramento
State Supreme Court
Peter Sitkin
California Welfare Rights Organization
Sitkin
Jay S. Linderman
AIDC
Indicted in Obscenity Case Over Illustrated Report
Three corporations and four individuals were indicted by federal grand juries in San Diego and Dallas for interstate shipment of obscene material and conspiracy related to an illustrated version of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography report. The San Diego case names Greenleaf Classics, Reed Enterprises, Library Service, and executives including Hamling and Kemp. Dallas charges Hamling and Greenleaf Classics with truck shipment of obscene matter. London Press printed the material. several others were named as unindicted co-conspirators.
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Commission On
San Diego
Calif
Dallas
Tex
The
Commission On Obscenity and
Commission On Obscenity and Pornography
Greenleaf Classics Inc
Reed Enterprises, Inc
Library Service, Inc
William L. Hamling
Library Service
Greenleaf Classics
Earl Kemp
Shirley R. Wright
David L. Thomas
Hamling
Reed Enterprises
Justice Department
London Press, Inc
North Hollywood
London Press
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