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...Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Monday attacked one of the other proposals-a 1-per-cent payroll tax-and suggested that Cambridge abolish rent control and allow unlimited condominium conversion in an attempt to increase its tax base...
...nearly lunchtime one day last week when Vice President Walter Mondale led 43 Senators into the cavernous and half-empty House chamber, sat next to House Speaker Tip O'Neill on the rostrum and began one of the oddest-but necessary-rituals of American presidential politics. Exactly two months earlier, Ronald Wilson Reagan had been elected President; in exactly two weeks, he would be inaugurated. Yet, under the cumbersome election procedures set forth in the U.S. Constitution, he was not yet officially President-elect of the United States. One by one, Mondale opened 51 sealed envelopes, which contained certificates...
Standing on the rostrum of the House chamber, after certifying Reagan as the electoral-vote winner, Mondale announced the tally in the electoral balloting for Vice President. After Mondale proclaimed George Bush's tally, legislators on both sides of the aisle, as well as the spectators in the gallery, rose to give Mondale a standing ovation for his finale: "Walter F. Mondale, of the State of Minnesota, has received 49 votes.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett with Reagan and James Willwerth/Ju...
Jiang sneeringly retorted that it was the court that was counterrevolutionary, whereupon the judge ordered her to leave. She refused. As bailiffs then dragged her unwillingly from the chamber, she shouted Cultural Revolution slogans, unheard in China for years, that echoed her radical past: "Revolution is no crime!" she cried out. "To rebel is justified...
DIED. Alec Wilder, 73, idiosyncratic composer who was equally adept at wistful popular songs (It's So Peaceful in the Country, I'll Be Around, While We're Young) and unfashionably melodic orchestral and chamber works, and whose 1972 book, American Popular Song, showed him to be a gifted writer as well; of lung cancer; in Gainesville...