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...Means Chief Dan Rostenkowski compromised on the last significant differences between the versions passed by the House last December and the Senate in June. Then came a day of nerve-jangling negotiations selling the deal to the other 20 members of the House-Senate conference committee (ten from each chamber). Finally the full committee gave its stamp of approval Saturday night. Though messy details remain to be filled in, and some elements of the compromise may be renegotiated after Congress returns from its three- week recess on Sept. 8, there seems little doubt that both houses will pass a final...
...Planning Committee has discussed possible alternative uses of Memorial Hall with faculty and student groups who currently use it, including the Chamber Music Orchestra and the Blood Drive, said Zeckhauser...
...week's end, J.J. was still working tirelessly, finding chamber pots and corked champagne bottles, a single shoe, and a shiny-handled safe sporting an ornate crest. Alvin was called in to try and open the safe with its robot arm, but failed. Still on the agenda were plans to investigate new areas of the Titanic's main section, as well as debris from the wreck. "I'm tickled by how well Jason Jr. has done," said Ballard. "We're really in great shape...
...love and death, abandonment and deviancy. Painting apart, he worked hard to earn his nickname "der Tolle" (the crazy man). George Grosz remembered him at a ball in Berlin, gnawing on the fresh and bloody bone of an ox. He sometimes hid among the waxworks of criminals in the chamber of horrors of the Berlin Panoptikum, and sprang out with a howl to frighten the visitors. These early "happenings" (artist as cannibal, artist as criminal) were subtexts to the main theme of artist as primitive, untrammeled by conventions of any kind. O.K.'s letters were full of nostalgia...
...majority of 304 out of 512 seats in the lower house of parliament, an increase of more than 50, while the smaller opposition parties suffered setback after setback. In the upper house too the L.D.P. gained eleven seats, giving it a total of 142 in the 252-member chamber...