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...While attending a state funeral in 1835, Andrew Jackson was shot at but unharmed as he stepped from the rotunda to the Capitol portico. In 1915, the old Supreme Court Chamber in the Senate Wing of the Capitol and a reception room were bombed by a college professor angered over U.S. munitions sales to Britain. In 1954, Puerto Rican Nationalists opened fire from a House gallery, wounding five Congressmen on the floor below...
...opinions. The document does not mention excommunication of persistent offenders. The ultimate punishment appears to be public censure of a theologian's views or dismissal from a teaching post. As the Sacred Congregation's Monsignor Josef Tomko commented with grand metaphor: "The electric chair and gas chamber are no more...
...local embodiment. Suddenly, I found myself defending Harvard's tough-mindedness, its neglect of graduate students in the name of intellectual individualism. I was rebuking this man of the West with all the hauteur of the mythical Harvard man ! It was only a final touch of logic that the Chamber of Commerce pamphlet which described the town in which this man's college was located, showed, in its street guide, that every street and avenue bore the name of an Eastern college (a Harvard Avenue) or historical figure prominent before the westward expansion of the nineteenth century...
...Senator's health had been failing for five years. Even so, in 1969 he finally surrendered his Armed Services chairmanship and moved over to the more powerful Appropriations Committee. He spent less and less time in the chamber he loved, however, and finally entered Walter Reed General Hospital six weeks ago. He never returned to Capitol Hill but died coincidentally on the day that the 92nd Congress convened...
...Star Chamber. Many Britons who thoroughly disagree with Rudi's Maoist politics accept his argument that merely discussing politics does not constitute political activity. There was also the suspicion that Britain's secret service tapped his telephone, a practice that evokes special revulsion in Britain. Protest marches were staged at Cambridge and other universities, and the Financial Times warned that "only vigilance can prevent creeping incursions of Star Chamber techniques...