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Never before had a U.S. President been shot and recovered to appear before Congress. Rarely, if ever, had the Secret Service felt the need to post an agent at the President's side as he worked his way slowly through the cheering House chamber. And on only a few occasions had a President enjoyed such a shouting, clapping, emotional reception from the assembled lawmakers. Reagan's voice was thin and hoarse, but his complexion was ruddy. He deftly turned his own recuperation into a powerful plea for his prescription for curing the nation's economic ills...
Helms also knows his people. For years he was a TV political commentator in Raleigh, and his bristling, anti-Government editorials gained him a wide audience. Back home in North Carolina last week, speaking to the Chamber of Commerce, Helms moved easily through the crowd, always deferential, always courtly, touching in his folksy way on the mess the country is in. He listened to the familiar urgings to keep up the good fight. A thin film of sweat covered his face, a reminder of Helms' intensity; he is not a gregarious, double-handshake politician who thrusts himself at crowds...
...probably want to do something more intellectual with your life than perform. 'It's one thing if they don't want to teach it, but they look down on it as well," she says, noting that none of her professors has ever attended any of her numerous recitals or chamber-music concerts...
...polled Britons want to retain the monarchy, and recently, when Labor's William Hamilton made a solitary exit from Parliament after another of his frequent excoriations of the extravagant royals, Conservative M.P. Geoffrey Finsberg scoffed, "Those who share Mr. Hamilton's view will doubtless have left the chamber with him." What Hamilton wants is a wedding-or, in his phrase, "jamboree"-financed by the families of the bride and groom, "both exceedingly wealthy." In a rational debate, Hamilton might be hard to argue down. But this is a question of spirit, not logic. There is nothing...
While the Business Roundtable has been a particularly effective lobbyist for corporate America in Washington, it is not the only one. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Feder ation of Independent Business also plead the cause of business, especially for medium-and small-size companies. The Reagan White House is expected to give all these groups equal access. Before his economic message to Congress in February, the President called in representatives from the Roundtable and the other organizations for conversation, coffee and jelly beans. Says James ("Mike") McKevitt, a director of the NFIB...