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...developing brawl could begin this week in the lameduck session of Congress. Either house can indefinitely delay the deployment of the missile by refusing to approve funds for the Dense Pack basing plan. A move in the House last July to cancel MX production failed to pass by a mere three votes. A similar measure in the Senate lost by just four. The Administration is expected to wage an all-out fight to gain funding in the lameduck session since the new House, with 26 more Democrats than the present body, is expected to be even less receptive...
...discrepancy between the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer. The answer, provided in Adams' first book, is 42. The question, postulated in his second book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is: What is six times nine? The third book says that Q. and A. cancel each other out-and take the universe with them...
Like the President, Emery favors more defense spending, wants a constitutional amendment mandating a federal balanced budget, and opposes any move to cancel the third year of supply-side tax cuts Emery also backed the President's $98 billion "mid-course correction" tax increase...
After the resignations, the student senate voted to cancel the homecoming festivities, set for last weekend. A later vote allowed the events to take place as planned, but with a new selection process for the homecoming court. Instead of being interviewed and selected by a committee of students and university employees, members of the court will be elected by direct vote of the students...
...with a former porn star would escape at least some parental censure. When a vacationing photographer for the London Daily Mail spotted the prince and playmate Katherine "Koo" Stark on a flight to Barbados, all hell was bound to break loose. The photographer called the office, received orders to cancel his vacation and follow the prince instead, and was soon joined by a multitude of Fleet Street Johnies eager to cash in on the scoop...