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...House vote began, the cumulative tally flashed electronically on two of the chamber's walls. Soon the legislators were on their feet, shouting, jeering, laughing. The count was almost a tie: 203 for maintaining the arms ban and 202 for lifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Right Thing for America | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...most broadly respected business lobby is the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has far surpassed the once influential National Association of Manufacturers as a pragmatic power in Washington. As long as a decade ago, the N.A.M. was dismissed by one expert on capital powerbrokers as being lost in "a faintly fusty aura of dignity, lavender and the Union League." By contrast, the Chamber, operating out of a stately marble and limestone headquarters facing Lafayette Park, has come on strong. Embracing 2,500 local affiliates, 1,300 professional and trade associations and 68,000 corporations, it threw its weight behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swarming Lobbyists | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Concert: Harvard Chamber Orchestra. Works of Kirchner. Stravinsky and Mozart. 8:30 p.m., Sanders Theater. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SCHOOL CALENDAR | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

Vanderbilt's Soupart gives least three reasons for failure: 1) difficulties in the tiny egg the culture chamber into the uterus, 2) undetected chromosomal abnormalities that doom the egg before it has a chance to implant itself, and 3) interference in the acceptance of the egg by the very hormones that were used to encourage ovulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Concert: Chamber Orchestra. Works of Shoenberg, Gershwin and Mozart. 8:30 pm. Sander's Theater. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

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