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...Mike Mansfield called the Senate into session at 9 a.m. Friday, three hours earlier than usual, so that his colleagues would have plenty of time to get their perorations into the record before the hour agreed upon for voting -7 p.m. There was an air of anticlimax in the chamber: bitter skirmishing over amendments to the bill had ended two days before, with consistent victories for Administration lobbyists who twisted arms and scraped senatorial egos. Still, there seemed no doubt that the bill would pass. White House congressional liaison men had vanished from Capitol Hill. Their chief, Clark MacGregor...
...contest in Philadelphia is a study in contrasts: burly ex-Supercop Rizzo against Republican Thacher Longstreth-tall and slender, with Chestnut Hill-Princeton looks and background. Longstreth, a former executive vice president of the city's Chamber of Commerce and an unsuccessful mayoral candidate 16 years ago, was appointed by local G.O.P. Boss William Meehan. Rizzo, who rose through the ranks of the police department, won his party's nomination in a bruising primary battle (TIME, May 31), in which his main pitch was that, as police commissioner, he kept the "radicals" in check, and that he would...
...World War II had the House of Commons crackled with such political tension. As the House began a six-day debate leading up to this week's crucial vote on whether to join the European Common Market, members packed the green leather benches on each side of the chamber and overflowed into the aisles. The members on the two front benches faced each other like soldiers lined up for battle, with the pro-Market Tories of Prime Minister Edward Heath confronting the mostly antiMarket Laborites of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. On each side, groups of party rebels...
...Jackson was convicted he would have paid with his life for the death of John Mills. An eye for an eye, a life for a life, the vengeful justice of the Old Testament, yet more than justice would have been served if George Jackson had gone to the gas chamber--if, in fact, justice would have been served by his execution. His death at the hands of due process would have resolved the dilemma with which his life confronted the prison system...
...Chamber Soloists were enthusiastically received, an encouraging start for the Cambridge-Early Music Society's twentieth season. Had all the players caught the enthusiasm of the Messrs. Bressler, Murcell, and Ritchie, the evening would have been still more successful. Even so, a performance such as this with under fifteen people has infinitely more vigor than the cast-of-thousands approach used by the large opera organizations in their infrequent Handel offerings. Acis--along with Henry Purcell's chamber opera Dido and Aeneas--could make a strong case for baroque opera. It is a sad commentary on the form, however, that...