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...setting was historically apt. Until the Civil War, the ornate and intimate Old Senate Chamber, its dark wooden desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting...
...Wald, this is not the first time he has been arrested in an act of civil disobedience. He was previously arrested in the chamber of the House of Representatives during a protest against the Vietnam...
...uncertainty should begin to clear up this week. The Republican Senate majority will elect a new leadership Wednesday, so the White House will at least know with whom it will have to negotiate in the upper chamber. The Democrats controlling the House, however, may take a bit longer to select a Budget Committee chairman. In any case, though Congress has the final budgetary say, it will wait for a lead from Reagan - just as his own Administration is now doing. At budget-cutting time, it gets lonely...
DIED. Leonard Rose, 66, world-renowned cellist, admired for the technical mastery and elegance of his performances in solo work and chamber groups; of leukemia; in White Plains, N.Y. Rose was a brilliant, dedicated teacher whose students included the virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell and many cellists in America's top symphony orchestras...
...contest only 15 districts. There were 27 vacated seats to be filled this year (the smallest number in nearly 20 years); 13 of them had been held by Democrats, 14 by Republicans. Overall, the situation worked against the chances of any dramatic shift in the makeup of the lower chamber...