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...effective April 1 and use the estimated $5.5 billion a year in new revenues to repair highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. It passed the House last week by a resounding 262 to 143, but hit an unexpected snag in the Senate when three of that chamber's controlling Republicans began a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker predicts the bill will pass, but the measure may have to be watered down to make it more acceptable to truckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Be Santa Claus | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Charlie Brooks walked into the execution chamber, stretched out on the hospital gurney, and a catheter needle was inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death-Dealing Syringes | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Tsuzuki has studied piano since the age of four. She also enjoys the flute, chamber music, and especially singing. At Harvard she has participated in the Collegium Musicum and the Ensemble Society. She received the Horblitt Prize for outstanding musicians at Harvard and is currently a member of the Radcliffe Pitches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pianist R. Mayo Tsuzuki Wins Orchestra Concerto Competition | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

Kirby and Sen. Paul Harold (D-Quincy) represent the area served by the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, one of the only business groups to publicly oppose repeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Laws Repeal Bill Passes Senate, Goes to Governor King | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...limited edition on a green, Christmas-tree-shaped disk features one of the hottest punk groups around. The Dragons, as well as California surf-rock veterans the Malibooz. The former let loose with an ear-shattering version of "Silent Night" that makes the infamous Neil Young rendition sound like chamber music. As for the Mals, they make Christmas in California a real treat. Who cares that there's no snow in Malibu. When Santa eschews his sleigh to hang ten in "Santa Goes surfin'" you forget all about the cold back East and groove to the good vibrations. Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roll Over Jingle Bells | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

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