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...Affront. He supplied his own answer: Powell's great expansion of committee staff and committee travel. Ash brook said that before Powell, the staff had consisted of four Republicans and twelve Democrats. Now it had "35 or 40" Democrats and just two Republicans. At the same time, he said, the Republicans were "harassed" with "persistent demands" that they give up their minority suite. And, although the committee "would seem to have less reason to travel than most other committees," it had become "one of the most freely traveling groups in the entire Congress." About half of that travel, said...
...Ash Wednesday, with Rio's streets almost deserted except for strings of colored lights, colored plastic pillars and a few exhausted stragglers, the highly vital statistics told only part of the story. Ambulance calls: 1,827. Street fights: 90. Arrests: 422. Complexes eased and frustrations forgotten: Quern sabe? What the statistics did not show was the thousands of times the police simply looked the other way, following an unwritten law governing the free spirits of carnival. "Americans have money," rasped one exhausted tourist when it was all over, "but Brazilians have soul...
...many Germans, Ash Wednesday holds an extra measure of solemnity. It marks the end of the gay Fasching season, about the only time of the year when a middle-aged widower or a plain, bespectacled spinster can break out of the everyday litany of loneliness and-who knows? -find true love across a crowded beer hall. Of those who were still lonely as Fasching ended last week, many would not wait for next year's festivities; they will turn instead to one of West Germany's 200 marriage agencies, such as the booming "Institute for Elegant Individual Marriage...
Huston Smith, professor of philosophy at M.I.T., will give the final Lemann Lecture tonight at 8:45 at the Radcliffe Graduate Center, 6 Ash St, on the "Ambiguities of Love...
...second Lemann Lecture will take place this evening at 8 p.m. In the Radcliffe Graduate Center living room, at the corner of Ash and Brattle Streets. Mrs. Gerald A. Berlin will speak in place of Mrs. Endicott Peabody, as the fourth member of a panel discussing marriage...