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...stretch of the imagination will the U.S. Senate Chamber on Jan. 20, 1975, look the way it did on Jan. 5, 1937, when a bleak band of 16 Republicans assembled to face a phalanx of 76 Democrats on the other side of the aisle. But the Democrats did reasonably well in last week's elections: they scored a net gain of at least three seats, thereby increasing their strength in the Senate to 61 (with 38 for the Republicans and one contest still in doubt). More important, perhaps, they elected a particularly impressive freshman class. Among the more promising...
...legislature rose from two to nine; in Colorado, from ten to 17; in Maryland, from eleven to 19; and in Hawaii, from four to ten. The results are obvious to anyone familiar with a U.S. statehouse. Four years ago, for example, the spittoons were removed from the Maine Senate chamber; a women's lounge was added. This month, with the victory of more than half the 35 women candidates for seats in the legislature, there is a plan under way to enlarge that lounge...
Besides daily doses of classical guitar, folk, jazz and chamber music, owner Milt James has put together a better than typical cafe menu; some hefty slices of banana and pecan bread are the most memorable dishes...
...musical forces are giving Ives' music the kind of extensive exposure it never had during his lifetime. In Florida, the University of Miami is sponsoring a seven-month celebration, during which 35 musical organizations intend to perform all of Ives' published works. Conductor Pierre Boulez and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center have devoted a week to an Ives festival. Yale University and Brooklyn College concluded a joint Charles Ives Centennial Festival-Conference last week...
Congress, which had welcomed the President warmly to the House chamber he knows so well, greeted his proposals with a cool skepticism. Legislators wondered if the suggestions, in the eyes of the American people, would constitute much of the "leadership" and "action" that the President rightly said they yearn for. Even within the Administration, some officials found it hard to muster more than faint praise for the end product of so much public and private soul searching. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who favored more wage-price jawboning and a bigger public service employment program than Ford proposed, said...