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...damask-hung walls of the Senate chamber reverberated with the longest, most heartfelt outpouring of affection and admiration that anyone could remember. Hubert Humphrey had returned to the place he loves "with blind devotion." Eleven weeks after doctors discovered that his pelvic cancer had spread and was beyond surgery, the "Happy Warrior" of the Democratic Party was back at the desk he has occupied for 21 years. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela reports...
...standing ovation from his colleagues and from the overflowing galleries continued while Hubert Humphrey moved vigorously around the chamber, greeting friends, among them a number of onetime adversaries, with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship...
...Communist leader's broadside had two goals: 1) to launch a direct ideological dialogue with church authorities, and 2) to improve the party's image with middle-class Catholics who might provide further gains in future elections. With 227 seats in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies, the Communists are already formal partners in the six-party accord that supports Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government...
Washington, the city of monuments, has one architectural landmark that is not widely recognized: its press corps forms the nation's largest echo chamber...
...Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the twelve main players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, joined by pianist Gilbert Kalish, begin their three-concert series this Sunday with another romantic-contemporary program. Among the works performed will be Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" Op. 28, arranged for chamber ensemble. The piece is a good introduction to the unusual musical world of Strauss, although I don't know how much of the real flavor actually comes through in a chamber transcription. Beethoven's "Kakadu" Variation for Piano Trio, Yehudi Wyner's Serenade (1958) for seven instruments and Brahms' Quintet for clarinet and strings...