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RENT by bitter differences-some personal, others partisan-the 92nd Congress struggled vainly last week to wind up its business and adjourn for the year. Weary Congressmen, anxious to join friends and family for the holidays, testily fought for favored legislation, while the Administration and the Democratic majority tried to bloody one another as best they could. There was angry talk of filibusters, end runs, threats and bluffs. President Nixon weighed in with a harshly worded veto of a bill, originating in the Congress, to establish a national system of comprehensive child development and day care...
THREE years ago the Cambridge City Council used to meet in the afternoon and then adjourn to Igo's restaurant for cocktails and a leisurely dinner of lobster or steak. The city picked up the tab, of course. But it is unlikely now that the nine councillors could refrain from making political accusations over such dinners. The Council meets now in the evening and the sessions are long. Driveway permits and requests to put up signs on stores no longer have priority. Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency...
...settles, the wife is recruited into the Leawood Welcomers Club: for the next two years she meets other newcomers and learns the local ropes along with them. The men join neighborhood associations that meet weekly or monthly to talk over questions like the status of garbage collections before they adjourn for a hand of cards...
...released in January, she was immediately subpoenaed again, though the Justice Department clearly knew that she would refuse to testify again. When she insisted on remaining silent, she was returned to prison-this time for the remainder of the Grand Jury investigation. The Grand Jury will probably adjourn on December...
Volpin was sentenced to remain in jail until the end of the grand jury term. The jury is scheduled to adjourn on March 31, but the Justice Depart-ment will probably extend the term until December...