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...magnitude of the Democratic shift in the House was larger than originally expected by the Republicans, who in the first blush of Reagan's landslide 1980 victory had harbored hopes of capturing the chamber this year. Since World War II, the average loss in a mid-term election by a party that has just won the White House is twelve; the Democrats under Jimmy Carter lost eleven in 1978. In fact, not since 1922 has a party lost as many seats in its first mid-term election...
DICK HEADLEE, insurance salesman, former state Chamber of Commerce president, devout Mormon, had not necessarily been a front-runner prior to October 21; his chances were neither stunning nor slim. But his shocking statements, coupled with his clarification explaining that he was only referring to some ERA proponents, have made him something of a doormat in what should have been a hotly contested, vitally important race...
...sections, violins, violas, cellos and basses, which play together as one, producing a dark, creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman on the order of a Stradivarius, played by a consummate virtuoso...
...public hearing last night, council members questioned Healy and three members of the commission on specific parts of the report. The only objection to the recommendations by a private citizen came from Daniel C. Crane '72, chairman of the real estate committee of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce...
...describing a milieu as familiar to him as the inside of a movie studio is to most Hollywood directors: a Turkish prison. This is not the glossy torture chamber of Midnight Express-no theatrical sadomasochism here, no melodramatizing of the color scheme, no soft-focus sexual groping-but a place where ordinary men endure the restless boredom of confinement. Five of them are given a week's pass to visit their families, and find that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more...