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...central characters of this year's parliamentary drama, however, were huddled in the rear of the chamber among other members of the House of Commons, who had been summoned to the Queen's presence by another treasured anachronism known as Black Rod. Prime Minister James Callaghan and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher listened idly to an arid speech that the government, by custom, had prepared for the Queen to read...
Rather than concentrate on the romantic period of the late 18th and 19th cenutries, like the usual classical music station, Kagan says WHRB focuses on that great body of "other stuff": chamber music, baroque, pre-baroque and modern classical...
...single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...
Businessmen tend to view the guidelines as an attack on the symptoms rather than the causes of inflation. Shearon Harris, chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sent Carter a six-page letter sarcastically suggesting that the Administration apply guidelines not to wages and prices but to its own actions, "such as a 7% limit on the increase in federal taxes, a 5¾% [ceiling on the] increase in overall federal spending and a freeze on net new regulations." William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said last week that guidelines may have "some value" but "there...
...Graduate Touring Program and Nightmusic Series offer an alternative of sorts for concertgoers. This fall, the Touring Program features eight concerts by vocalists, chamber players, brass quintet and a violinist. The concerts take place at such locations as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Walpole State Prison and the Goethe Institute of Boston. Today at noon, soprano Sheila Gayle sings music of Handel and Debussy at the Federal Reserve, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, and the Romanul Chamber Players perform at the Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston, at 4 p.m. All of the concerts...