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Nobody is for drugs. Which is one reason why Democrats and Republicans were so eager to pass an antidrug bill before returning home to re-election campaigns. So what is the problem? It seems that the House Republicans wanted a bill with a provision mandating the death penalty for drug-related homicides, but Senate Democrats threatened to filibuster the measure...
Thanks to several hours of deft negotiations last week, Democrats and Republicans had it both ways. After two months of wrangling over the $1.7 billion antidrug measure, leaders utilized a little-known procedure that allowed the House to approve the bill with the death penalty intact and then send it back to the Senate, where members stripped the provision from the bill. "I don't think anyone's really proud of it," said Representative Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat. "But I don't think they could think of another way to get it out of here...
...necessary to be a board chairman to spiff up in a tux, however. "The tuxedo is a great equalizer," suggests Chicago Fund Raiser Sugar Rautbord. "It's hard to distinguish between the head waiter and a CEO." Bill Blass, whose traditional tux designs for After Six are among the industry's best sellers, brings the whole matter down to earth and into perspective: "Ultimately, it all stems back to women. It's the gal who wants to dress up, and the fellow has to go along." That's one reason Blass has been a success for so long; he knows...
...available, as boatmakers are buffeted by one of the worst sailboat gluts in memory. No accurate estimate of the number of vessels for sale is available, but price cuts of 25% to 30%, particularly for secondhand sailboats in the $100,000-and-under range, have suddenly become common. Says Bill Stewart, owner of a boat brokerage in Key Biscayne, Fla.: "The bottom has just fallen out of sales...
...Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock throbbed through The Blackboard Jungle, rock-'n'-roll hit movies with the force of a party doll at a quilting bee. Each form cheerfully exploited the other; neither was ever quite the same. By the '60s, movies were an indispensable tool for marketing any hot new group. Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night pinned the larkish wit of four Liverpudlians on top of the world; Bob Rafelson's Head (co-written with Jack Nicholson) was a brilliant, bilious suicide note from the Monkees to their die-hard fans. Today rock helps...