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...until the President began talking about the "terrible tragedy on the Potomac" that Skutnik had an inkling that something was up. "Oh, oh," he thought, "here it comes." Suddenly the leaders of the land were on their feet and waves of heartfelt, nonpartisan applause rolled through the House chamber. Skutnik, looking slightly stricken, stood up with the help of a shove from behind. "My mind went blank, I didn't move a muscle. I was stunned. Not many people get standing ovations, and for somebody like...
Reassembly of the interior was a more detailed and painstaking work. Bear heads, for instance, were carved on newel posts, faithful to an old photograph and to a few pieces of the original stairway which were found in a Sacramento church. The mint-green assembly chamber now dazzles visitors with its crystal chandeliers and 1870s carved desks. The smaller but richer senate chamber blushes with rose carpeting and brocade drapery. Nine other rooms, including offices of former Governors, have been restored as an exhibit at a cost of $1.7 million...
...free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday." From Boston's Quincy Market to San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, the U.S. cityscape shines with burnished filigree and newly painted trim on public buildings. In Albany, the senate chamber in the capitol was recently restored to its original 1880s state at a cost of about $2 million. Alabama refurbished the entire exterior of its antebellum capitol in Montgomery in 1981 for roughly $3 million, and intends to begin work on the interior next year. The exterior of Pennsylvania's legislative building...
...Corpus Christi the residents seem to like the name just fine. Says Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Jimmy Lyles: "We use the English language here and not the Latin language." Meanwhile, the controversy seems likely to go on ad infinitum...
...acrimony over economic policy, a surprising degree of harmony prevails on foreign affairs and defense. Mitterrand's request for $22 billion in military spending, up 3.6% after inflation over last year's level, passed the Senate without dissent this month. It was the upper chamber's first unanimous vote in 30 years. Nonetheless, it is Mitterrand's handling of the economy and of domestic social policy that will determine France's international strength, its uniquely firm stand on Western defense and, of course, the number of future televised reassurances the President will have to give...