Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with letters, had to be taped closed. Slow-moving elevators forced Senators to overflow into freight lifts. Private conversations were being filtered into the corridors through louvered air ducts in the doors. Long-legged lawmakers cracked their kneecaps against low-slung desks. And the new subway to the Capitol lay dead-ended about 250 ft. short of its destination (cost to complete...
There were so many committees and subcommittees in the picture that the blame became as institutional as the Great White Goof itself. "In any $25 million Government building," said a Capitol employee philosophically, "you're bound to have some things go wrong...
...lawmaking initiative has migrated from the Capitol to the White House. The idea of an Administration legislative program "is now so familiar that it is hard to realize how recent it is in our national history, and how contrary in many respects to the traditional concepts of the American political system...
Crazy He Calls Me (Dakota Staton; Capitol LP). Singer Staton is an ample woman with a more than ample voice and a gaudy spectrum of moods. She can be broadly comic in How High the Moon, exuberant in No Moon at All, anguished in Morning, Noon or Night. In Can't Live Without Him Any More she hits the listener with a sound like an unmuted brass section. What makes her album a delight, though, is its sheer exuberance, suggesting that nobody is getting more kicks than Dakota herself...
From the "hungry i" (The Kingston Trio; Capitol LP). One of the most gifted trios in years offers an artfully mixed bag of selections from a San Francisco nightclub program. Included are a French lullaby, a calypso number, a Zulu hunting chant and a stunningly arranged version of They Call the Wind Maria. The group has antic imagination and enough craft to strike sparks from as shopworn a number as When the Saints Go Marching...