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Unusual Step. The first crunch came in June. After each chamber passed a separate bill, a House-Senate conference committee settled on $25.8 billion for procurement of equipment. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate's new Budget Committee, called for rejection of the measure, pointing out that it was some $900 million over the targeted figure for that category. For help, Muskie turned to Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, the committee's ranking Republican. Though Bellmon usually backs high defense spending, he is also a fiscal conservative. The two men made a deal: Bellmon agreed...
...city finance director, the personnel director, the community devel opment director, the chairman of the school board and the president of the Chamber of Commerce. All are wom en, and the international charter bars them. Sympathetic local Rotarians say they would just as soon let women in, but they are helpless...
...English Christmas" sung by the Cecilia Society Chorus and Chamber Singers. Music of Tallis, Britten, Tippett. Sanders Theater...
Public Jobs. Elected to the Senate in 1968, he helped to organize a similar Wednesday Club in that chamber. As early as 1969, he sent a prophetic message on behalf of Republican moderates to President Nixon, who had been ignoring them. Mathias warned, "You don't need us now, but you will later." Mathias was an early critic of the Viet Nam War. With Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, he was one of only two Republican Senators on Nixon's celebrated enemies list - a point in which he now takes pride...
Arada Woodwind Trio presents a concert of chamber music for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Works by Milhaud and Villa-Lobos. Adams...