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...people of Illinois have been treated in recent weeks to the spectacle of their state lawmakers engaging in their annual rite of spring: making "goddamn fools" of themselves, in the apt words of one representative, as they rush to complete the legislative agenda before the adjournment scheduled for June 30. Since some 4,500 measures had been introduced, legislators were forced to meet nights and weekends. As tempers flared, medics outside the chambers tested blood pressure, and sent two people to the hospital. One representative introduced a motion to permit members time each day for conjugal visits, either with their...
...ordinary American is characteristically generous. It is the enlightened, educated American who is more apt to be swayed by abstract ideological considerations: by feelings of disgust toward the war itself, joy in the triumph of the North Vietnamese, and the acceptance of stereotypes about South Vietnamese as the "bad guys," viewed self-righteously as a group rather than as individuals in need...
...Griliches said yesterday that had publicity about the department, particularly in the national news media, had made the admissions committee initially apt to overestimate the number and the seriousness of losses of highly-rated applicants...
Peretz, who bought the magazine in April '74, said yesterday that he and Rosenblatt are "old friends," and that he thinks Rosenblatt is an "apt choice, because he's got taste, talent...
McGovern's timing was apt. It came right before the opening of the OAS foreign ministers' meeting in Washington last week. The Cuba issue was not on the group's formal agenda, but Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he thinks that the OAS has reached a "general understanding" on a formula for ending the trade and diplomatic embargo. At the same time, two congressional subcommittees opened joint hearings aimed at proposing new legislation that could lift the economic embargo...