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...ROBING AREA, with ranks of lockers and dressing cubicles, provides a place where Mormons can change into (and even rent) the all-white clothing that they wear for temple work: shirts, ties, and trousers for the men, knee-length dresses for women. Near by is a bridal chamber where brides may rent wedding gowns from a showcase full of samples...
...Freshman registration several years ago, incoming Harvard students were given--among mounds of other printed material--some kind of Chamber-of-Commerce hype about the "charming and multi-dimensional Harvard Square." It began, "As you emerge from the Harvard Square station of the MBTA, Massachusetts Avenue (or, as the natives say, Mass Ave) is in front of you, behind you, on your right, on your left...
...known simply as Marty to his Capitol Hill friends, a name that just would not fit his famous father, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Senate Page Martin Luther King III, 16, has been spending his days running errands in the upper chamber and his evenings running the base paths as a softball player on the teams of Georgia Congressman Andrew Young and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. At times, it seems, the action is brisker on the mound than on the Hill. "It's been a great learning experience," says King diplomatically. "But after a while, when...
...with the Dow Jones industrials rising almost 24 points. Crowds gathered along the fences surrounding the White House; mostly somber and curious, they had the quiet air of a death watch. In the House of Representatives, the gravelly voice of William ("Fish Bait") Miller startled the occupants of that chamber. "Mr. Speaker, a message from the President of the United States," he announced. In the stillness, a clerk read the anticlimactic title: a presidential report on "Government Services to Rural America...
...hope of getting it through by Christmas, wants the new Senate to carry on where the old one left off. "The Senate is a continuing body, and we wouldn't have to start the trial over again," he argues. He plans to provide seats in the chamber for new Senators elected in November so that they can hear the evidence before they take office...