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M.I.T. CHAPEL--Commonwealth Chamber Players. Woodwind quintets by Danzi, Reicha. Free. Thursday, February 14, 12 noon...
...sights and sounds were deceptive. For both Nixon and his most ardent defenders, the occasion was, properly enough, a performance. After the initial ceremonial greeting, the applause came almost entirely from the Republican side of the House chamber. It was repeatedly led by a shouting group of cheerleaders at the rear of the G.O.P. ranks, while the Democrats generally listened in silence. Twice, standing ovations were precipitated by a justifiably partisan gallery observer: Pat Nixon.-She rose, was followed by other members of the First Family and close aides, and the movement then spread to the Republican side...
...which would have enough force to rip apart single-cell organisms, releasing their protein to provide a cheap and plentiful food supplement. He built the Cottell Ultrasonic Reactor, which is hardly larger than a long loaf of bread and resembles an electric drill. The reactor is a mechanical torture chamber in which liquids and semiliquids are broken down under pressures of 1 million lbs. per sq. in. This force is built up by a titanium piston that plunges back and forth within the chamber at the rate of 20,000 times each second. Cottell reasoned that so powerful a tool...
...generals ruled that the President would be chosen by the electoral college, which is controlled by the National Renewal Alliance, the government party. The government offered to pay $1,600 to each elector who showed up to vote; as a result, there were few empty seats in the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia on election day last week. Geisel picked up 400 of 497 votes. So predictable was his election that he did not even bother attending the voting session...
...dirt-floored cottage to No. 10 Downing Street was not his reckless invective but a stubborn insistence on such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against the Fm-all-right-Jack, never-had-it-so-good political climate in which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career...