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...majority. In the House, Republicans did not come close to recapturing the 26 seats they lost to Democrats in the 1982 midterm election; Wednesday-morning projections gave them a net gain of ten to 15. That would not only keep the Democrats in control of the lower chamber; it might deny Reagan the "ideological majority" of Republicans and conservative Democrats that he enjoyed in the first two years of his term...
...stories of his Hollywood days. He spoke of how he did not like the heaving and panting sex in the new movies-too explicit. He preferred the way Ernst Lubitsch had handled the subject, by hint and suggestion-the hand of a bride dropping her nightgown outside the bridal-chamber door, then the door closing, leaving the rest to imagination. This conversation seemed pure entertainment. But Ceylon was important: it holds the harbor of Trincomalee that we want to use in case of war. Madame Jayewardene left, swathed in a friendship that might be essential to policy...
...Seventh-day Adventist Church and has a fine reputation in pediatric heart surgery. Fae was suffering from hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a fatal condition said to affect one in 12,000 newborns. In children with this defect, the left side of the heart, including its main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, and the aorta, is seriously underdeveloped. In Fae's case, doc tors said, the left side of the organ was virtually nonexistent...
...Republican supremacy in Congress was merely an illusion. Overall, Democrats won 62 percent of the Congressional races, and they picked up two seats in the Senate. Only once before in modern politics when the Republicans lost two seats in 1972--has a party lost ground in the upper chamber while its presidential candidate won the general election...
...little jump from seat. Ever the educator, Rather, as he announced each state's returns, punctuated his comments with a little trivia--"Michigan, the Wolverine state, goes to Reagan; Wisconsin, the dairy state..."--as if the electoral process were some sort of grammar school pageant sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. Confronted with Reagan's landslide, and well aware of what such an obvious outcome might do to his viewership, Rather valiantly fought on. "Stay with us," he said. And then like Monty Hall or Bob Barker came the "can he win them...